ArtVerona

For the 2021 edition of ArtVerona, Andrea Festa presents the works of four distinctive artists: Carlos Casuso, József Csató, Kottie Paloma, and Andreas Zampella. The presentation brings together diverse yet interconnected pictorial and sculptural practices exploring the shifting boundaries between figuration and abstraction, theatricality and stillness, myth and personal narrative.

 

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Carlos Casuso (Vienna, 1995 – lives and works in Perugia) works across painting and drawing, creating layered compositions that merge visual strategies from Medieval painting to digital aesthetics. His approach is rooted in the act of mark-making, assembling diverse stylistic registers into a personal visual syntax where private life and global tensions infiltrate the image.

József Csató (Budapest, 1980 – lives and works in Budapest) draws from nature—smoke, volcanoes, stones, plants, and body parts—crafting compositions where historical references, surrealist languages, and pop-folkloric iconographies converge. His paintings evoke a dreamlike symbolic vocabulary, rich in textures and contrasts between abstraction and figuration.

Kottie Paloma (Los Angeles, 1974 – lives and works in Germany) blends German expressionism, music, and contemporary social commentary. His colorful compositions oscillate between abstraction and representation, generating puzzle-like spaces filled with spatial hints, symbolic forms, and suggestive dissonances. The viewer is invited to find coherence within a system of contradictions.

Andreas Zampella (Salerno, 1989 – lives and works in Milan) constructs his practice like a theatrical piece: painting becomes the scenography of actions and inactions, a mirror to the observer. His sculptural elements—props, raw meat containers, kinetic “machines”—become frozen gestures or absurd repetitions, staging a performative tension between object and viewer.