Angelo Musco

Placentas, eggs, nests, genetic structures, natural architectures, a multitude of interwoven human bodies representing containers of life in all possible aspects.  These are some of the recurrent images that populate Angelo Musco’s mysterious installations, photographs and videos.

Musco’s entire body of work is driven by personal experience: a delayed birth at the eleventh month due to hormonal dysfunction, and a difficult delivery which has left deep marks both in the artist’s unconscious memories and in his physical body.

His performances have been featured often in connection with major art fairs such as the Armory Show in 2004 with ILLA and in 2005 with Parthenogenesis; as well as with Art Basel Miami in 2006 with a second version of Parthenogenesis.  He was one of the featured artists of the exhibition Unconditional Love, a satellite show of the 2009 Venice Biennale, with his photographic installation, Hadal.

Born in Naples, Italy, in 1973, Angelo Musco was awarded a scholarship to attend the University of Granada, Spain, and received his BA from the Art Academy in Naples.  Musco’s work has been showed in Italy, Australia, Russia, Chile, and the USA.  In 2002 he was awarded the IDAA, International Digital Art Award in Australia.  The artist currently works and lives in NYC.  In 2003 CHARTA editions published Musco’s first artist book and catalogue, OPERAPRENA.

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