Manolo Cocho – Vasja Nagy

Art in a Suitcase featuring Lineas del Deserto

Manolo Cocho

curated by Vasja Nagy

Vernissage 17th of July, 2018 7 pm
Duration 18th till 28thof July, 2018

RED SUN aus der Serie Signos, 2017, Akryl und Tinte auf Baumwollpapier, 100 x 70 cm

Manolo Cocho is a Mexican artist who is internationally active and recognized. He lives and creates in a desert but his artworks are presented in major cities of the world. He dedicates himself to the contemplation of the Earth as the planet of our existence and daily life as well as the Universe as the existence on material and spiritual level. His position is well based on scientific knowledge but he doesn’t neglect the mythology of archetypes as well. Cocho works in various media including painting, sculpture, land art, performance, photography and video. He uses them accordingly to the content and the context. His departure is academic drawing and painting but he sublimates the classical media through conceptual thinking into a stabile form. His artwork has been described as post-contemporary because it is strongly attached to the contemporary context through his concern for ecology but still intended for eternity because of the use of archetypes.

Pictures of the Exhibition

Photocredits by Vasja Nagy/2018

He is active as a curator as well and he organizes various exhibitions at Museo Regional in San Luis Potosi, Fundacion Fertilizando el esfuerzo, and Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad de la Universidad Nacional UNAM in Ciudad de Mexico.