COSTANTINO MOROSIN
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Costantino Morosin was born in the Veneto in 1950. In 1975 he received a diploma in set designing from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice with a thesis on the semiological affinities between hunting agriculture and architecture in "terra cruda", with research material which he gathered from "Quaderni Neri" and which he produced on a trip to the South Sahara.
At a very young age, he worked in Africa as director of social anthropology documentaries produced for the F.A.O. and some African governments.
One of his documentaries, "Rachena - Fare assieme", was awarded a prize at the world conference "Habitat" held in Vancouver, Canada, in 1976.
In "Cart and horse around rural ltaly", sponsored by the W.W.F. in 1978, he developed a series of ecological themes.
140 sqm, Black Out, ROMA 1985.
Subsequentiy he lived in Milan, Turin and Rome, where, in 1980, he founded the weekly "Time Out-What's on in Rome". In this period, Rome and its workings were in the focus of his exploration.
He produced collages, large murals (La Chiarella, 450 sqm.) and objects in polypropylene, which were collected in the series "Atomic Morning".
Girasole MILANO 1985.
"Energie" and "Flusso", 1984
With "Cnosso" and "Energie", 1983-84, he was among the first Italian artists to create digital images and interpolations (Archive of Computer Graphics Europe-Rome).
With the production of telematic exchanges for the RAI programme "In search of the Ark", and with the performance of communication esthetics at the Roman gallery "Il Campo", where he buried one of his bronzes under the floor, Morosin brought to an end a creative cycle begun in 1982 and which had included the use of media and advanced technology. In that year he had produced an Art hologram, the Totem-Logo for the show "Calcata 1982, Audition for a future kingdom".
At this point in his career, the focus of Morosin's activities once again became an interest in the natural environment and the prevalent use of local materials fashioned on site in the open. Two factors contributed to this shift: the natural and historical assets lavished on the landscape which surrounds Calcata but especially the awareness Morosin had gained from a variety of powerful artistic experiences he had early in his career.
Calcata 1986
From this period on, there is an intense production of tuff-stone sculptures, large scale drawings, paintings in black and white as well as works in earthenware, bronze and glass.
h. cm 230, part., 1990
h. cm 36, copy 1/ 600
h. cm 16, 1990
h. cm 18, 9 copies, 1992
h. cm 36, 1993
Besides "The Thrones of Calcata", Morosin has created other public monuments (1993-94), with which he has won some national competions.
ORIOLO ROMANO, 1994
In Calcata in 1996 together with Anne Demijttenaere, he founded Opera Bosco, Art Museum in the Nature, open all year for public and school visits. The visitor to the museum follows a route which displays a number of works made from on-site materials, using naturalistic techniques.
Museo di Arte nella Natura, CALCATA, 1996
Museo di Arte nella Natura, CALCATA, 1996
Museo di Arte nella Natura, CALCATA, 1995
Museo di Arte nella Natura, CALCATA, 1997
Between 1998 and 1999, Morosin executed "The Trilith Horses of Castelfranco", three dolmens surmounted by heads composed of eleven monoliths of travertine stone, some of which weigh 26 tons. Like three large gateways they symbolize past, present and future and greet the third millennium, press release for the inauguration.
Morosin lives and works in Calcata (VT), a medieval village 40 km north of Rome.
Since 2002 Morosin creates the "SIGNA", artwork of territorial character based on GPS satellite traces, usable in mobility on smartphones; this work is also acquirable on rigid support.
- "Angelina World SIGNA", work of global extent.
- "Obama SIGNA" covers the territory of the USA.
- "La Ragazza d'Europa", a SIGNA which is implemented on the cities of the European continent and the Mediterranean Sea.
- "Sea SIGNA" on the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and America.
- "SIGNA China" extends over the Asian territory.
- "SIGNA Angelina", Venice 2003.
