{"id":15185,"date":"2026-10-02T22:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/?p=15185"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:46:06","slug":"giacomo-viscardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/artistdirectory\/giacomo-viscardi","title":{"rendered":"Giacomo Viscardi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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gaudate<\/em>
19.75″x14.75″; 20th century cut out, oil on wood panel; 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Giacomo Viscardi
Houston, Texas, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Giacomo Viscardi, collage begins in finding. It then meets destruction. With the cut of a razor blade, a character can be ripped from its original story, isolated and cast off from its world of meaning and tossed into the deep (or, a storage bag in the studio). Motivated by a fundamental belief that this part of the creative process mirrors the moments when our lives suddenly lose their narrative threads – i.e., when our worlds crumble about us and the constellations that once guided us home lead us into the dark, Viscardi transforms diverse images, textures, and materials from different continents and centuries into the collages making up the body of his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, Viscardi holds, collage does not end in meaning\u2019s breakdown. Viscardi believes collage is equally resurrective, asking in allegory: but what happens when we take the broken pieces of our lives and reconstruct with them? And so a bicycle rides amidst shooting stars and flying bottles of wine while birds swirl about dancers in the heavens; an inferno burns and beckons as Renaissance religious imagery is reborn in a cave amidst 1950s technologic dreams; French newspaper stands background to musical notes forming webs of entanglement; glamorous women from a mid-twentieth century franco-fashion lookbook catwalk against backgrounds of bold color; lacquer finishes, metallics, animals, and planes appear as a lone man is found adrift in the deep and a little girl surrounded by flower petals drifts into dreams in his debut exhibition, \u201cWhat Dreams May Come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giacomo Viscardi is a Houston-based collagist transforming found materials from his travels into pieces that allow us to see more deeply into our pasts, our presents, and our futures. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, he has never been formally trained. He earned degrees in philosophy and engineering. Diverse images, textures, and materials from different continents and centuries come together reimagined under Viscardi\u2019s hand in his debut exhibition, \u201cWhat Dreams May Come,\u201d now showing in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMAIL<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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smoking cigarettes in plato’s cave<\/em>
16″x20″; 20th – 21st century mixed media, aluminum, oil on canvas; 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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les troubadours<\/em>
24″x18″; 20th and 21st century mixed media, cardboard, oil on wood panel; 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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woman of the world<\/em>
10″x20″; 20th – 21st century mixed media, oil and gouache on canvas; 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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un tremblement de vie<\/em>
14″x11″; 20th – 21st century mixed media, oil, cardboard, wood panel; 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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