Bettina Costa: Argentina / Switzerland
Bettina Costa was born in Rosario (Argentina) in 1965. Her talent shows the legacy of her father "Aldo Costa" (illustrator and painter). Before moving to Switzerland in 2001, Bettina completed a 2-year painting training programme held by Stella Maris Marinich (plastic artist - Buenos Aires / Argentina).
With her realistic style, strongly marked by the conflict between what she believed she should paint and what she wanted to paint. The abstract world called her, and the understanding that a painting does not necessarily need to be exactly like the reality it represents, gave her wings to fly into the world of the abstraction.
The nostalgia for her homeland makes her appeal to a new theme "Tango"; a connecting thread of her current works "Tango de Papel", "Tangollage" and her latest series "Pasos de Tango". With a personal technique, using collage and acrylic, the artist manages to bring together movement, passion and music; she overlaps suggestive images, harmonic and contrasting colours, which act with even intensity on the surface of the paper and the feelings of the observer.
In 2016 she went for the first time away from the walls with the project "Vereda del Tango" (Tango sidewalk). That is a teach-yourself-tango sidewalk showing the eight basic steps of this dance. The first "Vereda del Tango" in Switzerland is located by the Kurbrunnenanlage in Rheinfelden. During the Art Basel week 2017, she presented her project "Cancha de Tango": a rectangular rolling-grass area on the gravel showing the tango steps. The steps were marked with whiting spray like in any playing field or "Cancha" (Spanish for playing field). Further street art installations were carried out in 2018 in Barcelona and 2019 in Budapest.
At the same time, Bettina has been working more and more with paper and digital collages representing bizarre, whimsical scenes of everyday life. An example of this is the project "Rheinfelden Surreal", a series of 29 works, which was presented at "Kunst Lokal Rheinfelden, 2018" (adjudicated and curated exhibition). Two works of this series were selected as Rheinfelden's wedding pictures 2019 – the wedding pictures are works from local artists which the city of Rheinfelden gives each year as present on occasion of a marriage.
With her realistic style, strongly marked by the conflict between what she believed she should paint and what she wanted to paint. The abstract world called her, and the understanding that a painting does not necessarily need to be exactly like the reality it represents, gave her wings to fly into the world of the abstraction.
The nostalgia for her homeland makes her appeal to a new theme "Tango"; a connecting thread of her current works "Tango de Papel", "Tangollage" and her latest series "Pasos de Tango". With a personal technique, using collage and acrylic, the artist manages to bring together movement, passion and music; she overlaps suggestive images, harmonic and contrasting colours, which act with even intensity on the surface of the paper and the feelings of the observer.
In 2016 she went for the first time away from the walls with the project "Vereda del Tango" (Tango sidewalk). That is a teach-yourself-tango sidewalk showing the eight basic steps of this dance. The first "Vereda del Tango" in Switzerland is located by the Kurbrunnenanlage in Rheinfelden. During the Art Basel week 2017, she presented her project "Cancha de Tango": a rectangular rolling-grass area on the gravel showing the tango steps. The steps were marked with whiting spray like in any playing field or "Cancha" (Spanish for playing field). Further street art installations were carried out in 2018 in Barcelona and 2019 in Budapest.
At the same time, Bettina has been working more and more with paper and digital collages representing bizarre, whimsical scenes of everyday life. An example of this is the project "Rheinfelden Surreal", a series of 29 works, which was presented at "Kunst Lokal Rheinfelden, 2018" (adjudicated and curated exhibition). Two works of this series were selected as Rheinfelden's wedding pictures 2019 – the wedding pictures are works from local artists which the city of Rheinfelden gives each year as present on occasion of a marriage.
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FRONTOFBICYCLE EXHIBITIONS 2020 - 2022
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Exhibitions
2020-2021 - Regionale 21 FABRIKculture, Hégenheim, Frankreich 2020 - Kunsttage, Basel 2020 - KunstKiosk Baar – Solo Exhibition 2020 - frontofbicycle Gallery, Basel 2020 - FAF 2020 - Gais 2019 - Offene Ateliers, Rheinfelden 2019 - Project “Vereda del Tango – Km 10939” – Budapest - Hungary 2019 - Project “Vereda del Tango – Km 10468” – Barcelona - Spain 2018 - kunst lokal, Rheinfelden (adjudicated) 2018 - ART MARKET BUDAPEST – Hungary 2018 - 3. Basler Kunstmarkt 2018 - HYBRID art fair – Madrid – Spain 2017 - Offene Ateliers Rheinfelden 2017 - “Puertas al Mar” – Installation of Santiago Vélez’s artwork (COL) – Rheinfelden 2017 - chemicalmoonBABY – Zurich 2017 - YIA Art Fair #10 – Basel 2017 - CAMPBASELrevisited – Basel 2017 - Kunst verbindet 2017 – Rheinfelden – Baden – Germany 2017 - SETUP CONTEMPORARY ARTFAIR – Bologna – Italy 2016 - kunst lokal, Rheinfelden (adjudicated) 2016 - SWAB - International Art Fair – Barcelona – Spain 2016 - Art Passage - Hotel Euler Basel – Solo Exhibition curated by Dr. Nadja Borer 2016 - LISTE TOTAL – Art Fair, Basel 2016 - Kunst trifft Musik – Solo Exhibition curated by Michelle Geser – Rheinfelden 2016 - ROOM ART FAIR #5 – International Art Fair – Madrid – Spain 2015 - Kunst im Gewerbehaus Q37 – Rheinfelden 2015 - SWAB – International Art Fair – Barcelona – Spain 2015 - Offene Ateliers, Rheinfelden 2014 - Kulturnacht, Rheinfelden 2013 - Offene Ateliers, Rheinfelden 2013 - ONEsize din A3 artshow – Basel 2011 - Kunst im Gewerbehaus Q37 – Rheinfelden 2011 - Offene Ateliers Rheinfelden 2009 - Offene Ateliers Rheinfelden 1999 – 2000 - Diverse group exhibitions in Argentina |