Currently living and working in London, Andrei Costache has created quite an aura around his work. His new series of paintings are magically progressing out of this world, at once immersive and extrapolated with voluminous foam. They look soft and puffy, when in fact, they are very sturdy.
His art is like a jelly belly machine - incorporating warping with a Renoir aesthetic. A hyper real fantasy where the electric jigsaw is his brush and the spray paint his palette. A crafted architectural woodwork combined with computerised glitched drawings. Building all the time something new!
Taking inspiration from classical paintings and expressing it in a modern personal way. His work is all about the childlike, ghosts, eroticism and transfiguration. Working like a robot in the studio until the art transforms the future.
A generational telepathic stream-wave of portraits and landscapes at an uncanny party. He sees the world digitally. A live wire transcendence that marries design with photography, sculpture with painting, and dreams with sci-fi nightmares.
Blending hi-tech and Gordian labour power, Costache connects the disparate interferences with a wildly original social media presence and the singularity of an artist working to save the 21st Century from its depravation of liberty.
b. 1983, Constanta, Romania
Education:
2016 - 2018 MA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2011 - 2014 BA Fine Art, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK
2004 - 2008 Studied Architecture, Ion Mincu University, Bucharest, Romania
Solo Shows:
2020 ‘Performative Action', Hackney Wick London, UK
2019 ‘Rainbow Odyssey’ , Aldgate Tower, London, UK
2018 ‘Space Cutters II’, 99 Bishops Gate, London, UK
2018 ’Urban Babes’, 93 Baker Street, London, UK
2015 ‘Salad Days Graffiti Nights’, The Cut Halesworth
2014 ‘Cake Play’, Lookout, Aldeburgh
2012 ‘Animal Safari’, Lookout, Aldeburgh
Group shows:
2020 ‘Savage’, Crypt Gallery, St Pancras, London, UK
2019 ‘Hackney WickED’, Space Studios, Fish Island, Hackney Wick, London, UK
2019 ‘Alive in the Universe’ , Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2018 ‘Abstract Reality’ , Auction Collective, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2018 ‘Floral Ambience 5.0', Degree Show, Slade, UCL, London, UK
2017 ‘It Is What It Isn't', Slade, RCA & RA, Group Show, Big Shed, Iken, Suffolk, UK
2017 ‘Park Project', Central Saint Martins Group Show, London Fields, London UK
2017 ‘Between', A217 Gallery, Chelsea School of Art, London UK
2017 ‘On Primrose Hill', Slade Group Show, London, UK
2016 'Looking at People, Looking at Art', Division of Labour, Herald St, London
2016 ‘Hot Desk', Group Show, London, UK
2015 ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, ICA London and Primary, Nottingham, UK
2014 ‘The Forest’ Degree Show, UOS, Ipswich, UK
2014 ‘British Contemporary Painting’, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2013 ‘SNIP’, Abbey Farm, Snape, UK
2013 ‘SNIPit’, Venice, Italy
2012 ‘The Future’, Atrium Studios, Ipswich, UK
2012 ‘Saatchi: Revisitation’, Ipswich School of Arts, Ipswich, UK
Commissions:
2013 ‘Never Ending Line’, Futura Park, Ipswich, UK
Residencies:
2011 ‘Poetry Adventure', Madrid, Spain
2013 ‘Interactivity', Merzbau, Cumbria, UK
2018 ‘Landscape and Light’, Letheringham, UK
Prizes:
2012-14 ‘'Student of the Year', UoS, Suffolk, UK
2018 ARTIQ Graduate Art Prize
Publications:
2013 Catalogue essay for Sarah Lucas retrospective ‘SITUATION: Absolute Beach Man Rubble’ , Whitechapel Gallery
Scholarships:
2020 AA 360 Summer School
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For art related inquiries please get in touch at:
andrei_costache_arhitectura@yahoo.com