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Articles on Flavia Codsi
Can You See Well?: The Importance of Contrast in Flavia Codsi’s Vision
by Kirsten Scheid
Contrast is a priority for Flavia Codsi. Bull’s Eye for this painter is when the contrast becomes so heightened it becomes inescapable, as in the jarring juxtaposition of red and black concentric circles that composes a conventional bull’s eye. The intense contrast of the energetic red and the self-absenting black helps you find your aim and set your sights. Or in this canvas what sets your sight is the additional metaphorical contrast between the soft bananas present in place of piercing horns humorously absented, and the thrusting male member implicitly referenced. “Can you see well?” is the question posed by much of Codsi’s art, and it is her masterful exploitation of contrastive elements that she offers to enhance her audience’s vision.
Codsi’s Realism
An interview with Kinda Hassan, September 2007
The subject and the background belong to two different worlds in your painting; the background is purely formal, while the subject is hyper real, he can always find his or her reference in reality. The space or location in your paintings is abstract, or at best minimal, imprecise, in opposition to the subjects who are so thoroughly particular and very well detailed and defined. Why this opposition in style between subject and background?
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Bio:
Flavia Codsi is a painter who was born in Beirut in 1961 and continues to work there. Self-trained in painting and drawing, she earned a degree in interior design and worked in that field for several years. he entered the world of public art exhibitions by winning the Dorothy Salhab Kazemi prize at the Salon d'Automne of Sursock Museum in 1994. The following year she took special mention from the jury at the same Salon, and capped her success with the first prize in painting at the 1996 Salon. She also participated in numerous unconventional fora, such as Ashkal Alwan's installation show in Sanayeh Garden, the collective Sydney-Beirut, Beirut-Sydney held in Australia in 1999, and "Nisa fi-l- ma`rad" at Nadi al-Saha in 2001. Her one woman exhibitions in Lebanon include "Phases" at Espace SD in 2003 and "Fructivores" at Galerie Aida Cherfan in 2006. In 1998 she illustrated a children's book, The Houses of Beirut, by Nayla Audi.
Links to other articles on Flavia Codsi’s work:
http://www.cedarseed.com/air/dsflavia.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=82347
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