Cosimo Veneziano's Monument Deconstruction at AlbumArte

Cosimo Veneziano (born Moncalieri, 1983; lives in Leeds) creates works intimately tied to their sites of production. His research centers on monuments and their contemporary identity, deconstructing and fragmenting the notion of public art to return it to the public. Through an egalitarian interpretive process, he considers what remains in relation to what was. Public art, for him, is the testimony of a past event—perhaps once celebratory—that no one wants to remember today. Decontextualized, fragmented, relocated, it shifts from community to individual. This different connotation brings the work back among us with what remains, granting new temporary, generational, and ephemeral meanings within the multifaceted regeneration process of inevitable change. The exhibition was held at AlbumArte in Rome.