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Carlos Casuso works with the reinterpretation of the history of art - specifically focused on iconographic Italian tradition - and the drawing is a tribute to freedom and the joy of living, his practice is influenced by many elements that are stratified, his work is surrounded by an aura of enigmatic ambiguity that is expressed in the faces and bodies of the many figures painted.

 

The painting style of Gabe Cortese is a mixture of imagined stories of desire and personal experience. Smooth signs, dark nuances and dramatic ambientations, honirical as hironic and ambiguous, the artist subvert religious motifs in order to create a discord between spirituality and sexuality and re-appropriates figuration to treat intimacy and thus express hisidentity: a different type of activism that passes through the narration of everyday things, of small intimate gestures described and captured in a painting.

Carlos Casuso

Carlos Casuso's new works talk about the human figure on multiple levels, in some pieces we can see the relationship between the figures and some anatomical ambiguities that characterize them, in others you can notice certain references to the world of emotions, comics and psyche. There are references to play and love, as well as to euphoria and schizophrenia.

“My work develops in Painting and Drawing, I work mainly on large formats where the figures can have a similar size to the real one. For every new work I always start by making various sketches drawn on paper and / or digital sketches. I relate better to drawing which I find most direct and pleasant, but painting is for me the greatest challenge.”

The practice of Carlos Casuso is influenced by many elements that are stratified, his work is surrounded by an aura of enigmatic ambiguity that is expressed in the faces and bodies of the many figures painted.

 

Gabe Cortese
“As a queer artist, my work has always been a way for me to make sense of my experiences. Through the process of world-building, I create animated objects and flamboyant bodies that begin to form queer narratives. These narratives portray themes of tenderness, longing, and desire in comical and dramatic ways. Each piece acts as a mirror that reanalyzes past memories, present realities, and future potentialities. My work frequently looks back at art history, borrowing from the weight of religious paintings. I subvert religious motifs in order to create a discord between spirituality and sexuality. Scenes of the adoration of Christ, the mourning of a body, and an enlightenment are placed within my own domestic spaces. The figures in the work reflect aspects of my partner, using his image as a lens to narrate my own experiences. Using charcoal drawing and oil painting, I create monochromatic pieces that exist between seriousness and silliness.”

Gabe Cortese creates oil paintings and charcoal drawings depicting codification of queerness through figuration and symbolism. As a queer artist, Cortese uses his work to make sense of his experiences. His animated objects and flamboyant bodies form queer narratives that portray themes of tenderness, longing and desire in comical and dramatic ways.