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ArchiveBorn 1973
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
In developing a very personal iconography, the work of Scoli Acosta stresses an obsessional approach to transforming daily objects and salvaged material.
« I try to stick to a « resourceful aesthetic », in other words, recycling, reclamation, readaptation and reproduction of daily objects and found objects. This approach relies on the necessity of reducing, reusing and recycling, all in isolating and rendering in a sublime light, the poetry of everyday life.
The fact that I have been greatly influenced from an early age by literature, and have lived in a multitude of countries, has reinforcced in me the contruction of a visual vocabulary, which I am developing and permanently recombining. This factor, along with a biological process of creation in a studio where each sculpture, painting, drawing etc, drives one another, gives my work the appearance of a dream-like sculpture, or that of an incoherent narrative. » S.A.
 Scoli Acosta, The Devil Pours out of the Guitar with the Homemade Pickguard, 21 x 29,7 cml, 2007-2008. |
