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SCOLI ACOSTA	biographybookspress

Reflecting a highly personalized iconography, Scoli Acosta’s works employ a near obsessional approach to the transformation of common objects and found materials. Recycling such discarded items as cornucopia murals (as found on the street corner markets in East Los Angeles), cars, brick fragments, solar panels, the plant world, polished driftwood and abandoned domestic furniture,

Acosta’s approach is one that relies upon the appropriation of manmade forms already toiled over by natural processes. Scoli Acosta was born in 1973 in Los Angeles where he lives and works. Awarded the Perrier-Jouët Prize for Best Artist at Zoo Art Fair in 2008, he has studied fine art at the Kansas City Art Institute (1994) and the Ultimate Akademie in Cologne, Germany (1997).

Exhibition views Big Well Nada - Miami, 2008
Solar Petal Carnation Chandelier - 2008, 3 ft x 3 ft x 3 ft - 91,4 x 91,4 x 91,4 cm Solar panel photocopies, wire, solar panels, led lights, sissal tape, lamp parts
The Gatekeepers - 2008, 50 inches x 60 inches x 3 feet high - 127 x 153 x 91,5 cm Cardboard, wood, acrylic paint, egg crate box, magi-sculpt, window screens, computer, meteorite, wire, video on loop with sound
Sunflower Tire Planter - 2008 Bag: 16 3/4’’ x 12” x 7 1/4” - Tire: 2 1/2’ x 2 1/2’ x 2’ high Paper bag, wood, gel medium, foam core, acrylic paint, Rubber car tire
Exhibition view Big Well Nada - Miami, 2008
Bauhauasian Sundance through the Aztec Eye Fragment Performance with Zeek Sheck, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2008
Exhibition views Carbon Footprint - Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, 2008
Broken Beach-Side Brick Wall and the Giant Yellow Geranium - 2007-2008 98” x 81.1”- 249 x 206 cm, Acrylic paint, graphite, seaweed on paper
Price explosion - 2006, Watercolour, graphite, silver marker. 8 drawings : 15.5” x 12.2” each
Solar Panel 3 - 2008. Acrylic and pen on paper, 39.9” x 50.2” - 96,5 x 127,5 cm
Carbon Footprint Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, 2008
Sketchy Inhabitants - 2006-2008. Graphite, watercolour, colouring pencil 8.2” x 11.7” - 21 x 29,7 cm
Trophyatrophy - 2006-2007 Graphite, watercolour, colouring pencil 8.2” x 11.7” - 21 x 29,7 cm
Passing the Planetarium - 2006-2007 Graphite, tip-ex, color pencil, inkjet print, glue 8.2” x 11.7” - 21 x 29,7 cm
From and about Place : Art from Los Angeles  - Exhibition views, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2008 - 2002
Phantom Sightings : Art after the Chicano Movement - LACMA, Los Angeles, 2008 Exhibition views,Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico D.F., 2008
Exhibition views Bountiful - LAXART, Los Angeles, 2008
Exhibition views Viva Mexico - Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Varsovie, 2007-2008