Giacomo Cossio was born in Parma in 1974, where he lives and works. He graduated in Architecture at the University of Ferrara.
His work stems from a pictorial desire to create a true and contemporary image of the world he lives in. His work aims to be an accurate description of the culture of his time, as well as a symbolic and poetic transfiguration of an era he considers deeply apocalyptic. This is the primary function of art: to create a formal synthesis of a vague and widespread feeling. A lone man, facing the landscape, a vegetal landscape of potted plants.

A gardener and a garden of plants. The potted plants represent all that is natural: mountains, forests, sea, sky, earth. The artist/gardener is gripped by madness and – instead of watering, pruning, and tending – he sprays paint, making everything uniform, monochrome. Thus, the image of the world takes shape: a man dressed in a yellow raincoat that sprays paint onto the environment. A man who, over silent contemplation, opts for incessant action, impact, and transformation.

What matters is the action on the living world. The time for staging is over. Closing oneself in a limited space and performing this gesture is the way to materialize all this. The artist himself experiences sensations of overwhelming power and transgression, of overcoming limits, of domination. Once the action is over, the wounded nature grows back and sprouts anew. The heavy viscous paint peels off, and nature continues to live, inexorably. Human action passes, leaving no trace.