Maurizio Cosua
Maurizio Cosua
Maurizio Cosua Born in Ferrara, He´s living in Venice. Professor at State Institut of Art´s , Venice. Prof. Jerome Liss, M.D.* On the Works of Maurizio Cosua When we look at the works of Maurizio Cosua, we might feel like a speeding car on a super highway suddenly stopped in its tracks because the super highway has become a dirt road and we must take off our shoes to walk upon it: Earth in its various forms is the substance of Cosua´s work, with a hidden door to take us into ourselves. The quick flicker of television events, that invades our inner life, suddenly disappears... We are in the world of ancient Indian tribes and we are guided by the natural lines of plant ferns and field furrows to the central source: a leaf, a stem or, hauntingly, a door. So Maurizio Cosua´s work asks us to linger with our eyes, don´t focus, let the earth absorb our attention as water is absorbed by the earth. And sometimes there is no focus for attention, just a corrugated homogeneous substance, but with, oh, what tones and shadings.
So we are in art as new learning, and today, the new
learning is of old perceptions. Jungian archetypes is
a synonym. Like the hunter who must discern the vague
light of a trail by night, we can only see Cosua if we
relax our eyes anew, let go all artificial
perceptions, and look upon the ground. In those
special tableaux in which the ground leads us to a
door, we may want to go through, out, in, to
ourselves.*Professor of clinical psychology, Westdeutsche Akademie, Dusseldorf, Germany medical training: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, U.S.A. psychiatric training: Mass. Mental Health Center (Harvard University), Boston, Masschusetts, U.S.A.