Federico Cozzucoli

FEDERICO COZZUCOLI
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Federico Cozzucoli born in Messina in 1972. He left Sicily at nineteen to begin theologic studies, which concludes in 1999, earning a bachelor's degree in theology at the Pontificial Lateran University in Rome. Subsequently, discovered his vocation as an artist, tries to mediate theology with the art and enrolled at the Pontificial Gregorian University, where he studied the themes of sacred art and graduated Operator for Cultural Heritage of the Church. At the same time he attended the School of Nude at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and he had his first exhibition experiences. His main artistic expression is the performance, which combines the experience of liturgical ritual of the Catholic Church - which is no longer actively and constantly practiced as a time - with syncretistic elements of the pop culture and high culture, reflecting the elements that characterize contemporary Catholicism: the popular devotion and the high theology that confronts the world of great philosophical culture. These issues, treated in a non-confessional way, are the subject of his videos, photographs, paintings and digital rework, sculptures, but is necessary to reaffirm that the majority of works come ...

Liceo Scientifico Messina '91

Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma '00
Scuola Libera del Nudo

Pontifical Lateran University '99
Baccellerato in Teologia

Pontifical Gregorian University '01
Operatore per i Beni Culturali della Chiesa

MOSTRE PERSONALI
2009
Il dialogo. Arte Sacra Antica e Contemporanea, a cura di Erica Olmetto, testo in catalogo di Erica Olmetto, Convento Sant'Antonio - Oppido Lucano (PZ)

2006
Cristi, Santi e Madonne!, a cura di Stefano Elena, Studio Soligo, testi in catalogo di Stefano Elena e Erica Olmetto - Roma

Genesi 19. Sodoma, a cura di Silvia Russo, testo in catalogo di Stefano Elena, Annuale d'Arte Città del Sale. Spazi Aperti Alle Culture, Torre delle Saline - Margherita di Savoia (FG)

2005
Genesi 3. La caduta, testo critico cura di Francesca Foti, Galleria Arturarte - Nepi Settevene, (VT)

Opera Postuma, a cura di Stefano Elena, all'interno della rassegna d'arte contemporanea curata da Francesco Stocchi, Angelo Mai! Ex Chiesa San Romano - Roma

Performance video / Performance work, testo critico di Erica Olmetto, May Mask / Arcivernice - Cagliari


MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2013
Sainte Chapelle, un progetto di Federico Cozzucoli, testo critico di Simona Campus, in occasione della 9a Giornata del Contemporaneo promossa da AMACI, in collaborazione con il Comune di Cagliari Assessorato alla Cultura, il Comune di Donori, il Comune di Ghilarza, la provincia di Oristano, MEM Mediateca del Mediterraneo - Cagliari, Galleria Gall...