Pi Artworks is delighted to announce the representation of Antonio Cosentino (b. 1970, Istanbul), who lives and works in Istanbul. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and writing, Cosentino has developed a distinctive practice rooted in the changing fabric of the city and in the relationship between memory, everyday life and imagination.

A founding member of Hafriyat Collective, established in 1996, Cosentino emerged from a generation of artists who turned their attention to the street, popular culture and the contradictions of a rapidly transforming Istanbul. The city has remained central to his work ever since. Long walks, photographs, buildings, vehicles, signs, discarded objects and chance encounters accumulate across his practice, forming what has been described as a visual diary of urban life. Reality and fiction sit easily alongside one another; nostalgia, humour and melancholy are equally present.

Cosentino is also a storyteller in the literal sense. Writing has long accompanied his exhibitions, alongside artist’s books and publications, extending the world of his paintings and objects into language. His stories share the same attentive gaze as his visual work: the ordinary details of the city—a street, a car, the sea, a neighbourhood, an unexpected encounter—can become the beginning of another reality. As Cosentino writes, unpredictability and uncertainty are fundamental to his way of working: “The radiant work creates its own story and its own reality.”