biography

Born in Italy graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts  of Genova, he  has been working  in Europe ,Russia, China , Japan. Visual artist and performer since  1978 he operates on different levels  of expression (  photography, videos, installations, performances ) without losing the essential  unity of the poetic gravity on the relationship between “self and other, developed and exposed in its open contradiction between reality  and appearance, artifice and nature. He is interested in the metaphor between the “political body ” and the “social body ” in the ambiguity  of contemporary  time .PierPaolo Koss doesn’t slit  his own body as a  canvas by Fontana, he doesn’t cut his own flesh   to prove  immortality through the bright red spurting of the vital  stream; he expresses the organic limits by means of action slow-downs  and marvellous body motions, which catalyze the gaze of cunning beholders and outline  the most  diverse maps of reality. Koss has always worked for the creation of shifting  identities, undergoing  continuous transformations ,using  the body as a means  and not as  an end, a battlefield  with  strong biological limits .

Among the most important  exhibitions   —     Menagerie de Verre Paris    UNESCO Paris   Espace Pierre Cardin  Paris       

Festival of Video Art  Locarno (Swiss) whith Studio Azzurro   Center for contemporary Art  L.Pecci  Prato( Italy ) La Fabrica Barcellona Spain   Museo Muni contemporary Art Francavilla (Italy) Museo of Contemporary Art  Genova (Ially)

TAORMINA Arte (Italy)  FlashArt  Fair Milano  Foto Fever Paris ,The Photography Show AIPAD New York  MARS Gallery  Moscow   New Tretyakowsy  Gallery Moscow  Palazzo del Monferrato (AL) Phtoto Biennale of Moscow Puskin Museum  Moscow 54 th Biennale of Venice “Lo stato dell’Arte ) National Art Museum  of China NAMOC  Beijin  Guandong Art Museum  Guangzhou (China) Palazzo Ducale Genova (Italy)—-XI Moscow International Biennale of Photography

-His work are collected by – Contemporary Art Museum Genova  (Italy) Fodation Fratelli Alinari  Florence (Italy  Fondazione Ermanno Casoli  Fabriano (Italy) Mars Gallery Moscow

Multimedia Art Museum –Moscow.

 

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