Claudio Costa — Contemporary Avant-Garde Art
2 min readApr 2, 2019
Claudio Costa (1942, in Tirana — 1995, in Genova) was a Contemporary Artists from the 1970s avant-garde. Costa’s artistic production is divided in several different periods. He explored Arte povera, Conceptual Art, paleontologist and anthropological art, alchemic art….As an artist associated with the Arte Povera movement, Costa’s first exhibition took place at the La Bertesca Gallery in Genova directed by Francesco Masnata. He produced a series of “tele acide” (acid canvases) (1970–1971), where he deployed a new pictorial language made of symbolical and magic elements by mixing them with materials and glue-earth-bone-blood-acids.
