Background
Costa was born to Italian parents in Tirana. In 1965, he married Anita Zerio and in the same year their daughter, Marisol, was born.
Costa was born to Italian parents in Tirana. In 1965, he married Anita Zerio and in the same year their daughter, Marisol, was born.
Politecnico di Milano.
In Costa"s artistic production it is possible to distinguish several different periods. He explored "arte povera", poverism in the original Italian movement of Conceptual Artist "paleontologist" and "anthropological art".
"alchemic" art
And activity in the Mental Day Center as an art therapist. As a poverist artist he produced the famous and rare series of "tele acide", or acid canvases. In this production (1970–1971) he used a new pictorial language of symbolical and magic value of elements and their mixture of materials and acids (glue-earth-bone-blood-acids).
Claudio explained the acid canvases writing, "I used three acids and a sulfate.
Nitric acid, which corroded the support almost immediately, iron chloride which gave a brownish colour, and cupper sulphate, which reminded me of the wonderful color of vine leaves when they are sprayed and which I needed to obtain a light blue base". Beginning in 1971, Claudio Costa investigated the confines between science and art as a paleontologist and anthropologist.
He returned to the remote prehistoric past in search of the roots of contemporary manitoba The work entitled "Museo dell"Uomo" (Museum of Manitoba) began as a summary and condensation of the anthropological study and production of the artist.
"Alchemic Art" was represented in his important Exhibition of the Biennale of Venice in 1985, directed by Arturo Schwartz.
Costa had a large workshop inside the hospital. lieutenant was the period of the so-called "Institute for unconscious matter and forms", which exhibited works of patients as well as artists. Claudio Costa expositions were all over the world, here we remember: "Louisiana Bertesca" Gallery in Genoa in 1969, 1971 and 1972, Diter Hacher"s Avant-Gard Gallery of Berlin in 1971, Biennale of Venice 1972, Biennale of Paris in 1973, Ludwing Galerie of Aachen in 1974, "Project "74" in Cologne, Palazzo Reale of Milan in 1974, Monteghirfo Museum of Active anthropology in 1975, Documenta 6 Museum Fridericianum of Kassel in 1977, Museo Vostell in Càceres of Extremadura in 1978, "Mithos and Ritual" exhibition of Zurig in 1981, Biennale of Venice in 1986, et cetera
As a member of the Arte Povera movement, Costa"s first exhibition took place at the Louisiana Bertesca Gallery in Genova, whose Director Francesco Masnata helped introduce Costa in the contemporary art scene.