Fernando Costa - Costa, Fernando

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Résumé :
This is the first book on the work of Fernando Costa (b. 1972), an eclectic, self-taught French artist. Costa works in an unusual medium: He collects damaged street signs and cuts them up, smooths them down, and reassembles them, welding the pieces onto large metal plaques to create energetic, colorful works of extraordinary originality. Some of the works are figurative, echoing Pop Art, moments from the artist's life, or people who have influenced him, such as the Beatles, the British cyclist Tom Simpson, or Josephine Baker. Other works flirt with abstraction derived from cubism and the mechanical music of Edgard Var?se. In 2013, he was the 18th artist selected to create the Art Car for the 24 Hours of Le Mans car race, following in the footsteps of Calder, Warhol, and Koons.
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Biographie:
Johan-Fr?d?rik Hel Guedj is a French writer who has published short stories, two novels, and an account of polar exploration. He lives in Brussels and writes on contemporary art in the daily newspaper L'Echo/De Tijd.

Sommaire:
Fernando Costa (born 1972) lives and works near Sarlat in P?rigord, France. The success of this self-taught artist was totally unexpected. Since 1998 he has collected damaged street signs in France and elsewhere, and transformed them into artworks. In 2013, he was the eighteenth artist selected to create the 'Art Car' for Le Mans 24 Hours car race: a recognition of his talent, in the footsteps of Calder, Warhol, C?sar, Arman, and Jeff Koons. Johan-Fr?d?rik Hel Guedj, a French writer, has published two novels (Le traitement des cendres, L'amour grave), a collection of short stories (De mon vivant), an account of polar exploration (Chercheurs d'?ternit?), and an essay on Orson Welles (La r?gle du faux). He lives in Brussels and writes on contemporary art in the daily newspaper L'Echo/De Tijd....