Represented by the gallery for more than twenty years, Fernando Costa has established himself as a singular figure in the contemporary scene. His favored medium? Enamelled metal plates — true French cultural heritage — torn from their primary function: road signs, street signs, Paris metro corridors, advertising signs. Cut, assembled, welded, these fragments of everyday life are reborn as multicolored, luminous mosaics, where the eye gets lost with pleasure.
Two universes coexist in his work: one abstract, made of bas-reliefs with precise chromatic harmonies, monochrome or explosions of colors; the other resolutely figurative, where pictograms borrowed from the street become narrative language. In both cases, Costa reveals an innate talent for the balance of forms and the accuracy of colors, transforming industrial material into poetic writing.
Through these works imbued with the graphic codes of the 1950s and 1960s, the artist summons a buried collective memory. He offers the collector's gaze a space of nostalgia and freedom — that of telling one's own story.
The strength and originality of his work, praised by public collections as well as by major private collectors, make Fernando Costa a truly unique artist today.
We await you numerous for this beautiful opportunity to rediscover his universe.
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