{"id":8808,"date":"2019-03-03T19:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2019-03-03T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T00:04:09","slug":"linus-coraggio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/linus-coraggio\/","title":{"rendered":"Linus Coraggio"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9123\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8808-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/linuscorragio.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/linuscorragio.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/linuscorragio.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8809 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0389.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0389.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0389.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0389.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0389.jpeg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0389.jpeg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0389.jpeg?resize=696%2C522&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0389.jpeg?resize=1068%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0389.jpeg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0389.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/linuscoraggio.com\/\">Linus Coraggio<\/a> invented a genre of street art in 1982 called 3-D Graffiti &#8211; \u201coutstalling\u201d many examples around New York City on \u2018\u2019no-parking\u2019&#8217; signposts. He was the founder of the Rivington School Sculptors Group and welded a massive post-apocalyptic sculpture garden of rusted metal that rose menacingly above Forsyth and Rivington Streets on New York\u2019s Lower East Side. He was also the architect of the Gas Station (the performance space, after hours club and sculpture garden) that sat on Second Street and Avenue B well into the 1990s. These seminal downtown art spaces were the vanguard of wild autonomous art activism in the face of rapid gentrification. Coraggio is known for his abstract sculpture, his sculptural furniture, woodcut prints, expressionist graffiti paintings and his reimagined motorcycles (utilizing cellphones, barbie dolls, metal, bamboo, and plastic mixed with any other urban or country detritus imaginable).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A self-confessed \u2018\u2019odd kid\u2019\u2019, Coraggio was always drawing and making stuff. One entire summer was engulfed by building a 36\u2019\u2019 high pyramid of 15,000 toothpicks carefully glued into the giant configuration. When it was done he asked his mother what to call such an object and she replied \u201csculpture\u2019\u2019.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The die was cast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The son of avant-garde composer Henry Brant, with whom he often collaborated, Coraggio grew up accompanying his mother Pat Brant on her trips across the rust belt as she photographed abandoned industrial sites for her Village Voice column. This experience informed his later choice of \u201cused\u201d metal as his medium when he discovered welding at Purchase College. Using materials that could be found in vacant lots or pilfered from building sites across lower Manhattan and the city\u2019s outer boroughs, Corragio\u2019s richly graphic street art provided a 3-D counterpoint to the 2-d spray paint<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>graffiti practiced by such contemporaries as Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite his lifelong immersion in making and showing art, Coraggio has been somewhat hidden or marginalized within the recognized historical canon of the major artists of the past 35 years. Yet he has received sporadic attention by the art press and inclusion in several important books, catalogues and shows about street art or the downtown 1980\u2019s\/1990\u2019s art scene. As more documentation emerges and Coraggio\u2019s activities coalesce, it is likely his maverick work will be better known in his lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Corragio attended the Whitney Museum Studio Program in 1986 and has done<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>sponsored<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>large scale public art in Helsinki Finland, Rotterdam holland,, Lintz Austria,Nagoya and Osaka japan . He continues to make art and live on the Upper West Side of New York City, which has been his main base for over 50 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8810\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8810 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Coraggio-WTC-III-.jpeg?resize=640%2C853&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Coraggio-WTC-III-.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Coraggio-WTC-III-.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Coraggio-WTC-III-.jpeg?resize=696%2C928&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Coraggio-WTC-III-.jpeg?resize=315%2C420&amp;ssl=1 315w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Coraggio-WTC-III-.jpeg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linus Coraggio, WTC III, Photo Jonathan Shorr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8811\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8811 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Al-Diaz.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Al-Diaz.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Al-Diaz.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Al-Diaz.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Al-Diaz.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Linus-Al-Diaz.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">linus\/samo colab #1 8\/2018, ink and zerox on paper,17 1\/2&#8221; x 23&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/linuscorragio.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listLinus Coraggio invented a genre of street art in 1982 called 3-D Graffiti &#8211; \u201coutstalling\u201d many examples around New York City on \u2018\u2019no-parking\u2019&#8217; signposts. 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