Cosimo Casoni (Florence, 1990) lives and works between Maremma and Milan. His practice measures  itself, through synthesis, stylistic patterns, meta-narration, and experimentation, against the need to find intersections between art and everyday life. This is a mainly diurnal and bright reality made up of classicism, personal memory and underground culture, where it is possible to notice strong influences by post graffitism, Macchiaioli and appropriationist tendencies. Actions such as using the skateboard deck as a large brush, or marking the pictorial material with fingers, are used both individually and as part and parcel of more complex works, through a pictorial process structured in layers, made of overlaps and cancellations.

Although his work is a continuous and incessant search for synthesis, it is often articulated around the coexistence of multiple stylistic and semiotic languages that, when combined on the canvas, give life to pictorial collages. The artist’s restless nature is combined with an opposing desire for order: geometry becomes the enclosure in which to dare and experiment; his creative process consists in a continuous exercise based on the alternation of planning and improvising, moments of action and of thought.

If the absence of an explicit narrative gives the viewer a blank page to get lost in, Casoni’s work, on the other hand, shapes itself as a meta-narrative puzzle whose pieces are visible but scattered. The artist plays with additions and overlays that decompose reality, reconstructing a dialectical image where time is present and space becomes a narrative of the creative process.