{"title":"Francesco Costantino","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLives and works in Palermo, Sicily\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Costantino is an Italian painter who lives and works in Palermo, one of the most compelling voices in the new generation of Sicilian painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTrained between Italy and France, he worked alongside the artist Aleksandra Mir, an encounter that left a deep imprint on his practice. On his canvases, quick color, fine lines and delicate shading gather into collages of ordinary fragments: membranes, liquid bodies and gentle marks weave together until the everyday becomes a vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis painting moves between memory, matter and perception, treating the canvas almost as a sculptor treats a block, something to be shaped in a continuous dialogue between materiality and transparency. Since his first solo exhibition, Deadline, at Zelle Arte Contemporanea, a meditation on portraiture and identity, he has exhibited in Italy and abroad and\u003cbr\u003ecollaborated, on the occasion of Manifesta 12, with international artists such as Lovett and Codagnone.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"belleville","title":"Belleville","description":"\u003cp\u003eA crowd presses to the edges of the sheet in a heat of coral, salmon and apricot, so densely packed that limbs, torsos and faces surface only to be absorbed again. At the upper left a cluster of deep blue and violet rounded forms interrupts the warmth. A hand closes around a pale rod at the left, brown fingers articulated with unexpected precision, while at the right a profile emerges in ochre and rose, chin lifted. Costantino's scene reads as a gathering glimpsed from within, tender and pressing at once.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francesco Costantino","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58258051662156,"sku":null,"price":2600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6790\/7660\/files\/belleville_1.jpg?v=1785425074"},{"product_id":"itten","title":"Itten","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A dense weave of figures and color fills the sheet, painted in oil on paper with a directness that leaves every brushstroke visible. Between and below figures the picture dissolves into overlapping planes of ultramarine, olive, ochre and pale blue grey. Costantino builds the image through color, letting warm reds and cool greens press against one another until the boundary between figure and ground gives way. The result is intimate and unstable at once, a gathering that seems to be assembling and dispersing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Costantino (b. 1986, Palermo, Italy) is a Sicilian painter whose canvases read as collages of ordinary fragments, where membranes, bodies, and delicate marks intertwine. Working with rapid chromatic passages, fine lines, and subtle gradations, he seeks to render evocative visions, transforming everyday experience through an almost sculptural process where the canvas becomes a block to be modeled. His work explores the relationship between humanity and nature, depicting landscapes interpreted through pale marks and suspended atmospheres, creating a dialogue between material presence and transparency on the painted surface. Costantino studied between Italy and France and worked as an assistant to the artist Aleksandra Mir, an experience that deeply shaped his artistic research. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. He lives and works in Sicily.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francesco Costantino","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58258173460812,"sku":null,"price":2600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6790\/7660\/files\/itten1.jpg?v=1785425701"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/6790\/7660\/collections\/Simone_Geraci_portrait_d36c3ecd-00d0-4513-9a11-152981902969.webp?v=1784299433","url":"https:\/\/thenomadartcollective.com\/collections\/francesco-costantino.oembed","provider":"Nomad Art Collective","version":"1.0","type":"link"}