ANDREA CUSUMANO
Born in Palermo in 1973, Andrea Cusumano is
primarily a painter and a sculptor, but has always experimented with a
wide variety of media.
Between 1990 and 1993 he studied at the Internationale Sommerakademie fuer bildende Kunst in
Salzburg with Georg Eisler and Hermann
Nitsch with whom later started his assistenship.
From 1997 to 1999 Cusumano worked with Nitsch in
Prinzendorf-Wien, co-ordinating his “6-Days-Theatre” (1998) and
directing the “6-Day-Simphony” with the O.M.Theater’s Orchestra in
Berlin. This show was hosted at the Nationalgallerie im Hamburger
Bahnhof and at the Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland in Bonn.
Since 1999 he has been working as an assistant at
Salzburg’s Internationale
Sommerakademie fuer bildende Kunst.
His interest in the theater world led him to start
voice lessons with bass Gianfranco Giordano in 1992.
In 1993 Cusumano produced in the Salzburg’s
fortress the first version of his Istallazione
dei Morti (Installation of the Dead), wich
has led him towards an ever increasing dramatization of his work.
The installation Garderobe was purchased in May 2000 by the Fuchs Collection
and is on permanent exhibition at the Volpinum Museum in Wien.
Cusumano also studied psychology at the University
of Palermo.
