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Pietro Costa’s “Drawings:” Between Art & History – Robert Mahoney

Pietro Costa: The Significance of Blood – Robert C. Morgan

Bloodworks – Albert Mobilio

 

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Painting Exuberant Forms With a Palette of Light
by Grace Glueck (Mar. 1, 2002)

Death is also oddly evoked by Pietro Costa’s “grace” (2002), an ethereal looking structure of concentric red and yellow neon hoops, which appear to float in air although strung from the ceiling. The work aims at a dialogue with the Flavin installation in the skylight above, but it also came to be a memorial for Sept. 11, its base strewn with tiny slips of paper printed with the names of the dead.

 

Show Turns a  Spotlight on Light Itself In All Forms
by William Zimmer (Feb. 17, 2002)

Mr. Costa’s history as an artist associated with the [aeshetics and sensibilities of the] Italian movement Arte Povera lends the sculpture genuine feeling for those artists’ deliberately incorporated humble materials, here the slips of paper, along with more sophisticated ones.