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You have to check out this link
to see some of his "art":
http://www.thescreamonline.com/strange/strange2-1/
Cosimo
Cavallaro was born in Montreal in 1961. The son of Italian immigrants,
Cavallaro was raised both in Canada and Italy. He attended art schools
in Italy, Canada, and the United States before eventually setting up
shop as a sculptor in Montreal in the early 1980's.
Cavallaro eventually fell into film direction when a friend asked him
to help out on a set. Within days, he was assisting with art design.
Soon he was a full time production designer working first on features
and then on commercials. Directing was the natural progression. As a
director Cavallaro has won numerous awards including the Director of
the Year Award in Canada and the 1990 Canadian Film Festival Award for
Best Video of the Year.
Although film and video monopolized the majority of Cavallaro's time
in the 1980's and early 1990's, his art remained evident in all of his
work, and foremost in his mind. In 1995 he moved to New York where he
began focusing more of his time on art. His work speaks to a variety
of audiences and expresses (in his own words) "the struggle between
need and desire; the known and unknown; the warm security of the womb
and the chill uncertainty of the world."
Cavallaro's media range from photography to large steel sculptures.
His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the
world. Cavallaro has recently been working with new media including
cheese (Room
114,
Twiggy in Cheese, a
pair of boots,and a
jacket), candy (Candy Chair), and rubber (inflatable piano).
His cheese installations have attracted features in various media
outlets including the New York Times, Contemporary Visual Arts,
People, BBC, Harpers, the Associated Press, CBC and the Fox News
Channel.
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