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Giacomo Costa was born in Florence in October 1970. He studied violin till the age of fourteen. He enrolled at Classical High School but left in 1986 to dedicate himself to motocross and work as a motorbike mechanic. When he graduated as a private student in 1990 his love for the mountains had already taken hold of him and he moved away from Florence. In ’92, having identified Mont Blanc as his favourite alpine environment, he spent some time working at the Rifugio Torino where he began photographing mountains. This interest in photography led him to open a studio in Florence where he concentrated mainly on portraits. But he found reality too limiting so in ‘96 his artistic research found him mixing traditional photography with the use of digital technologies. In 2002 he produced the series of “megalopolises” which marked his definitive abandonment of analogical photography and a complete going over to the creation of images with the computer. He currently lives and works in Florence, also as a paramedic in the ambulance service and, in winter, on the ski slopes. In 2000 he went back to motorbike racing and sailing his boat.

In his works, Costa explore the cities and use the architectures as a metaphore for represent human beings and their behaviours. He is concerned in all the thematics that stay around cities and that involved the the planet earth, from the pollution, to the global warming passing through the population's increasing, the urbanistical unplaning and much more. All the pictures are not based on real photography but are totally made with 3d technologies and then printed on photographic paper in large size.

To see more of Giacomo Costa's works, please visit his website.

Giacomo Costa is represented by:
Guidi & Schoen Arte Contemporanea, Genova, Italy

Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg

Dominik Mersch Gallery