From 14 December 2024 to 4 May 2025 the exhibition ‘Passion in The Secret Garden - Mark Kostabi in Trevi’, curated by Rita Rocconi and Gino Natoni, will be open at the Complesso Museale di San Francesco in Trevi.
The exhibition will feature 42 oil paintings by Mark Kostabi, created between 2023 and 2024. Most of the works will be exhibited in the rooms of the upper cloister, while others will be housed in the archaeological museum and the picture gallery. The juxtaposition with the ancient works revealed affinities, made up of chromatic or formal, sometimes even emotional assonances, highlighting alchemies between works so distant from each other in time and spirit.
Mark Kostabi is one of the best known and best loved artists on the contemporary international scene. His works can be found in the permanent collections of major museums in New York, from the Metropolitan to the Guggenheim to the MoMA, and also in Italy in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Rome and in the collection of the Trevi Flash Art Museum. This is in fact not the American artist's first time in Trevi: he was invited in the 1990s by Giancarlo Politi to Trevi for a solo exhibition in the then Museum of Contemporary Art in the Umbrian town.
Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles in 1960 to a family of Estonian immigrants. He grew up in Whittier, California and studied drawing and painting at the California State University in Fuìlerion. In 1982 he moved to New York where in just two years he became a prominent figure on the East Village art scene.
In 1988, he founded the renowned Kostabi World, the large New York studio where numerous painters and artists work.
Kostabi is the artist who paints faceless, timeless figures that can be all of us and none of us. They express the fear of man in society, but also a universal language. Quotations from the work of other authors emerge as constants in his works, and the depiction of faceless subjects alludes to dechirican mannequins.
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