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Neighborhood Man Engineers a New Kind of Art
by Christy Goodman (Apr. 15, 2002)

From Sant’Arsenio, Salerno, Italy to Carroll Gardens, Pietro Costa works best in that small town atmosphere…”I was always attracted to tools and finagling with materials,” said Costa…”I was born into a farming family. I think farmers have a lot to do with making art,” he said. “In art you plant ideas and then you harvest your efforts — I have always seen things that way.”

Brooklyn Artist’s Neon Sculptures Memorializes WTC Victims
by Raanan Geberer (Mar. 21, 2002)

All New Yorkers know about the “Tower of Light” at the site of the World Trade Center…But there’s another “tower of light,” although much smaller, that also memorializes the dead from both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Made of neon light rings with a wooden platform, it’s “grace” by Brooklyn’s Pietro Costa, on display now at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers.

Artists Respond To Sept. 11
by Georgette Gouveia (Feb.10, 2002)

Among the most outstanding [work] — indeed, you won’t be able to miss it — is Pietro Costa’s two-story “grace” (2002)… The pieces of paper recall the ancient Egyptian notion that a person lives on through his name — which is voiced, written and thus remembered… Costa’s original sculpture did not include the memorial wreath. But in light of Sept. 11, he reimagined his work. At such moments, “The Magic of Light” beams beyond the technological to touch the transcendent.