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Scoli Acosta
Scoli Acosta Large Contemporary Mixed Media Painting LA Art Red Planet Collage

2006

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Shadow of Opportunity on Red Planet Mixed media Framed 39.3 X 50 sheet 32.4 X 42.3 Hand signed, dated and titled by artist. (with a location of LA noted) This came with a group of 4. they are all signed and this one had a Daniel Reich Gallery label verso. Scoli Acosta was born in 1973 in Los Angeles, where he lives and works. Winner of the Perrier-Jouët Prize for Best Artist in 2008 at the ZOO ART FAIR (London), he graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute (1994) and the Ultimate Akademie, Cologne (1997). Scoli Acosta has been the subject of several solo exhibitions : Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego 2013 ; Armory Center for the Art, Pasadena, California, 2011 ; FRAC Basse Normandie, 2011 ; Laxart Los Angeles. His artworks can be found in the collections of the LACMA, Los Angeles ; Jumex Colección, Mexico ; MOMA, New York ; Rubell Family Collection, Miami ; FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur ; FRAC Pays de la Loire, Crac. He has showed at Daniel Reich gallery and currently shows at Galerie Laurent Godin in Paris, France. Scoli Acosta was born in 1973 and was predominantly influenced by the 1980s. The generation of artists that grew up in, and took inspiration from, the 1980s was influenced by a period of quickly growing global capitalism, political upheaval, significant wealth discrepancy, global mass media and distinctive music and fashion, including electronic pop music and hip hop. The nineteen eighties was the era of African famine, the height of the Cold War, and also the end of it, as marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall. influential art movements of the era include Neo Geo, The Pictures Generation and the international trend of Neo-Expressionism which manifested in Germany, the USA and Italy (where it was known as Transavanguardia). The decade was exemplified by artists like Anselm Kiefer, Jorg Immendorff, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente and Julian Schnabel. Street art and graffiti began to gain recognition, notable artists of which include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf. Scoli Acosta was born in 1973 in Los Angeles where he lives and works. Awarded the Perrier-Jouët Prize for Best Artist at Zoo Art Fair in 2008, he has studied fine art at the Kansas City Art Institute (1994) and the Ultimate Akademie in Köln, Germany (1997). « Moving beyond the "specific object" - to use Donald Judd s term - of the 1960s, which were neither paintings nor sculptures, but something in between, Acosta's tambourines are at once paintings and functional objects, diverting the legacy of modernist painting to the realm of the everyday, the hand-held, and the percussive. (…) Acosta is part of a lineage of artists who embrace the found object, from the Surrealists to later funk and assemblage artists of the 1960s, but his practice emphasizes recycling and reclamation, actions born of the pressures and necessities of our contemporary moment. Working with a range of mediums--oil and acrylic painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, and performance, all of which may be incorporated into elaborate installations--Acosta's work is characterized by what he has described as "aesthetics of resourcefulness." The artist favours humble materials, economic gestures, and transparency with respect to his craft. His installations emerge as poetic constellations that reveal traces of his research and production processes, as well as his movement through various landscapes. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2019 Scoli Acosta: Orpheus Hot / Orpheus Cold ,Galerie Laurent Godin ,Paris, France Scoli Acosta: To Ward The Setting Sun ,AF Projects, Los Angeles ,West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA 2018 Scoli Acosta: ... A human hand can actually bloom ,Galerie Laurent Godin ,Paris, France 2013 Scoli Acosta: Music of Morocco ,Galerie Laurent Godin ,Paris, France Scoli Acosta: ELEMENTAL ISTHMUS ,MCASD, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown ,San Diego, California, USA 2011 Scoli Acosta: Rippling: An Earnest Moire Effect ,Armory Center for the Arts ,Pasadena, California, USA 2008 Scoli Acosta ,LAXART ,Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 Ré-ouverture ,Galerie Laurent Godin ,Paris, France 2018 The Dialectic of the Stars ,Fahrenheit ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA 2016 Siren ,5 Car Garage ,Los Angeles, California, USA 2014 Les Horizons ,La Criée Centre d'Art Contemporain ,Rennes, France 2012 Made in L.A. 2012 ,Hammer Museum ,Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA 2010 Group Show: Scoli Acosta Delphine Coindet Mika Rottenberg Haim Steinbach Gérard Traquandi ,Galerie Laurent Godin ,Paris, France The Nice Thing about Castillo / Corrales... ,Castillo / Corrales ,Paris, France A Man Asleep ,LM Projects ,Los Angeles, California, USA Scoli Acosta is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1973. Their work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the MCASD, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown and the Hammer Museum.Scoli Acosta has been featured in articles for the Culture24 and the "VernissageTV". Scoli Acosta has exhibited at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; LA
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