Antonio Cosentino (artist)

Last updated

Antonio Cosentino (born 1970) is a Turkish contemporary artist of Italian origin living and working in Istanbul. Primarily a painter, Cosentino's work also encompasses sculpture, installation, writing and photography. [1]

Contents

Education

Graduated from the Painting Department of Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Faculty of Fine Arts in 1994. [2]

Work

Cosentino's paintings are characterized by the vibrancy of colors and textures, "suffused with a sense of movement, driven by plot and character". [3] Often engaged in storytelling across multiple media, Cosentino has focused on the subcultures and urban development in the city of Istanbul where he lives. [4]

Cosentino was among the three founders of the artists initiative Hafriyat in 1996, together with Hakan Gürsoytrak and Mustafa Pancar [2] in an effort to break free from the rigidity and conservatism of the art establishment. [5] In the next decade, the collective became a prominent actor in the Istanbul art scene with self-organized and politically engaged exhibitions showcasing a variety of artists' works. Between 2007 and 2009 the collective permanently occupied a space in Karakoy neighbourhood. [6]

Artist and critic Pınar Öğrenci describes Antonio Cosentino's art as follows: "While the shifting character of highbrow and low-brow art was being discussed in the 90’s contemporary art milieus, Cosentino and his artist friends undertook, as it were, the archaeology of a gaze which brought subculture into question. It is from this period on that Cosentino’s painting incorporated materials from the visual culture of our geography without letting one dominate the others: panels, signboards, wrappings and ceramic tiles (...) Cosentino’s mobile and ludic setup once again reminds us of the typical obliviousness of modernity, by suggesting concepts such as the fleetingness of megacities and urban architecture, the loss of human scale and localness, the superhuman speed and even consumption." [7]

Cosentino's works are part of major collections including Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Odunpazari Modern Museum.

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Further reading

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kutluğ Ataman</span> Turkish film director and artist (born 1961)

Kutluğ Ataman is an acclaimed Turkish-American contemporary artist and feature filmmaker. Ataman's films are known for their strong characterization and humanity. His early art works examine the ways in which people and communities create and rewrite their identities through self-expression, blurring the line between reality and fiction. His later works focus on history and geography as man-made constructs. He won the Carnegie Prize for his works Kuba in 2004. In the same year he was nominated for Turner Prize for his work Twelve.

Vasif Kortun is a curator, writer and educator in the field of contemporary art, its institutions, and exhibition practices. Kortun served as the founding director of several international institutions, including SALT, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Proje4L, and the Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. In 2006, he received the Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies for his "experimental approach and openness to new ideas to challenge the contemporary art world and push its parameters beyond national or international, local or global developments." Kortun has written extensively on contemporary art and visual culture in Turkey for publications and periodicals internationally. He currently lives in Ayvalık, a seaside town on the northwestern Aegean coast of Turkey.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">International Roaming Biennial of Tehran</span>

Urban Jealousy, the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran was an itinerant multimedia art exhibition presented in Istanbul, Berlin and Belgrade. The Biennial was curated and organised by Amir Ali Ghassemi and Serhat Köksal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Füreya Koral</span> Turkish artist (1910–1997)

Füreya Koral was a pioneering ceramics artist born into a prominent artistic family in Turkey.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bankalar Caddesi</span> Street in Istanbul, Turkey (also known as the financial centre of the Ottoman Empire)

Bankalar Caddesi, also known as Voyvoda Caddesi, in the historic Galata quarter of the district of Beyoğlu (Pera) in Istanbul, Turkey, was the financial centre of the late Ottoman Empire. It strikes out west from busy Kemeraltı Caddesi in Karaköy and segues into Okçu Musa Caddesi which leads up to Şişhane and Tepebaşı in Beyoğlu.

Mustafa Pancar is a Turkish artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Salt Research</span>

SALT is a Turkish contemporary art institution. It was started by Vasif Kortun and Garanti Bank in 2011, and has exhibition and workshop spaces in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. It combines the previous activities of the Garanti Gallery, the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre and the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center of the bank. It is one of the six members of L'Internationale, a confederation of European art institutions; the other member institutions are the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana, in Slovenia; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, in Spain; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona in Barcelona, also in Spain; the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen in Antwerp, in Belgium; and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ahmet Güneştekin</span> Kurdish visual artist

Ahmet Güneştekin is a Kurdish visual artist, whose works span painting, conceptual art and constructions sculpture. For Ahmet Güneştekin, a self-taught artist, art is a passion which has driven him since his childhood. He left the town of Batman for Istanbul in 1991, but had to wait several years before he found his own style at the beginning of the 2000s. He then abandoned the figurative to launch himself into a "narrative abstraction". This kind of production is loaded with the recollection of a vernacular art, the memory of motifs such as carpets, lamps, Ottoman copperware in which geometry is the leading force.

Erinç Seymen is a Turkish artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Istanbul Modern</span> Contemporary art museum in Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul Modern, a.k.a. Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, is a contemporary art gallery located inside the Galataport complex in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey. Inaugurated on December 11, 2004, Istanbul Modern was Turkey's first modern and contemporary art gallery and focuses on Turkish artists. It is a private venture under the umbrella of the nonprofit Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts.

Cevdet Erek is a Turkish visual artist and musician living and working in Istanbul, Turkey. He is known for combining sound, rhythm and architecture to create installations, videos, objects and performances characterized by site specificity. Cevdet Erek was the recipient of the Nam Jun Paik Award in 2012 and represented Turkey at the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gülsün Karamustafa</span> Turkish artist (born 1946)

Gülsün Karamustafa is a visual artist and filmmaker recognised as "one of Turkey’s most outspoken and celebrated artists." Using personal and historical narratives, Karamustafa explores socio-political issues in modern Turkey and addresses themes including sexuality-gender, exile-ethnicity, and displacement-migration. "Hailed as one of Turkey’s most influential contemporary artists," her work reflects on the traumatic effects of nation building, as it responds to the processes of modernization, political turbulence, and civil rights in a period that includes the military coups of 1960, 1971, and 1980. Karamustafa was one of the laureates of the 2014 Prince Claus Award, a prestigious award presented to "individuals for their outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development and the positive effect of their work on their direct environment and the wider cultural or social field." She lives and works in Istanbul.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rossella Biscotti</span> Italian visual artist

Rossella Biscotti is an artist whose practice cuts across sculpture, performance, sound works, and filmmaking.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Taylan Ünal</span> Turkish artist

Taylan Ünal is a Turkish artist who lives in Istanbul. His work includes oil paintings, drawings and street art.

Aydan Murtezaoğlu is a visual artist working mainly in photography and installation. She lives and works in Istanbul.

Ayşe Erkmen is a visual artist recognized as "one of the foremost Turkish artists." She is living and working in Berlin and in Istanbul.

Hale Tenger is a visual artist based in Istanbul. She is known for her large-scale installations that explore identity, collective memory, and political violence.

Burçak Bingöl is a visual artist based in Istanbul. Through a labour-intensive re-working of materials and objects, she explores ideas of belonging, cultural heritage, identity, decoration and failure. Her work uses a variety of mediums including ceramics, drawings, video, photography and installation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Galataport</span> Port and mixed-use complex in Istanbul

Galataport is a 400,000-square-metre (4,300,000 sq ft) mixed-use development located along 1.2 km (0.75 mi) of shore in the Karaköy neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey on the European shore of the Bosporus strait near its confluence with the Golden Horn right in the heart of the city. It includes the city's cruise ship terminal, around 250 shops and restaurants, a Peninsula hotel, the Istanbul Modern art museum, and other cultural and entertainment facilities; the complex also hosts festivals.

Emre Hüner is a visual artist living and working between Istanbul, Turkey and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Working with drawing, film, sculpture, installation and writing, his work explores the construction of modernist utopian projects, setting the idea of progress against deep time, geology and archeology through eclectic assemblages that blend fiction and documentarian approaches using archives, found objects and narratives.

References

  1. ↑ "Antonio Cosentino - 145 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  2. 1 2 "Antonio Cosentino". The Circle. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  3. ↑ Hanson, Matt (2020-04-06). "Escape into art with Antonio Cosentino at Zilberman Gallery in Istanbul". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  4. ↑ "Antonio Cosentino "Summer was a Beautiful Day" at Zilberman Gallery, Berlin — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. 2018-03-09. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  5. ↑ "istanbul-off-spaces". www.old.berlinerpool.de. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  6. ↑ @TheOthers (2022-09-12). "Initiatives in Istanbul by Pelin Uran". The Others Art Fair. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  7. ↑ "Un-founded". Pınar Öğrenci. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  8. ↑ "Summer was a Beautiful Day - EXHIBITIONS". www.zilbermangallery.com. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  9. ↑ "boxes of cigarettes and whisky all over the sea, ferâre, my love - EXHIBITIONS". www.zilbermangallery.com. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  10. ↑ "Esra Ersen Antonio Cosentino | SALT". saltonline.org. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  11. ↑ "Antonio COSENTINO". Pi Artworks. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  12. ↑ "Kiralık, Satılık - For Rent, For Sale - Protocinema". www.protocinema.org. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  13. ↑ "Istanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury | MAXXI". www.maxxi.art. 2015-07-28. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  14. ↑ "Every inclusion is an exclusion of other possibilities | SALT". saltonline.org. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  15. ↑ "Unrest of Form. Imagining the Political Subject - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  16. ↑ "Unrest of Form. Imagining the Political Subject - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  17. ↑ "Arter". www.arter.org.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  18. ↑ "Tactics of Invisibility - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  19. ↑ "Becoming Istanbul | SALT". saltonline.org. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.