For Fist, the first solo exhibition showcasing his metal pieces, Adriano Costa spent weeks in a foundry in Milan, creating a body of new works. Through a process bordering on alchemy, he transformed unfired clay into a new form of existence, pushing its properties and nature to their very limits. Costa worked the clay for hours, striking, deforming, and piercing it: hammers and knives replaced traditional tools, followed by thermal processes at varying high temperatures, generating forms suspended between control and chance.
The surfaces of the sculptures retain traces of these interventions, manipulations, and acts of violence, bearing witness to how direct and physical the artist’s relationship with the material really is: it is not simply shaped but subjected to tension—a kind of “forging of the world,” in which Costa’s input sees it transformed or recreated. The works become extensions of a way of thinking and a state of being: they speak not only of form, but also of how reality is perceived and experienced, as an unstable dimension in which even precariousness and error are of value.
May 14 – July 4, 2026 Wednesday – Saturday, 2 – 7 pm
