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Turning reality upside down and creating works that run counter to preconceivedideas, is one of Angelo Musco’s strategies. Living structures (ie: nests, amniotic sacs, eggs) both literal and figurative stir a depthof emotion that relates to the artist’s delayed and traumatic birth thatleft both physical and subconscious scares.
The human body is the artist’s medium. He melds bodies like hundreds of brush strokes, creating large compositions that are re-workings of nature’s structures. Born in Naples (Italy) in 1973, Musco’s studies alternated between the Academia Delle Belle Arti of Naples and the University of Fine Arts in Granada, Spain.
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2005. The human body is the artist’smedium. He melds bodies like hundreds of brush strokes, creatinglarge compositions that are re-workings of nature’s structures from theXY chromosome to a nurturing ant colony to a gigantic swirling underwaternest.
Everyone should be shouting out his name with passion, and glory. What an inspirational man, through his prowess of humanism, raw, unique collective art forms he pulls out all the stops and creates powerful, beauteous work. To know him, is to love him, as Angelo Musco is a true fighter and tackles all adversity.
The full documentary on the creation of The Land of Scars will be presented in New York in 2022. This work is the artist’s most personal exploration from his traumatic birth to today. Musco is known for his manipulation of millions of nude bodies, but in his 48 years he has never posed himself.
Nov 6, 2013 · Angelo Musco is the ‘spirit of the beehive’ of his nest of models; each soul lies down with a arbitrary placing of body parts, whilst his gentle directions steer people into the structural forms that he then uses as building blocks of his vision inside the computer.
