Smoker
- Date
1980
- Technique
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 72,5 x 92 cm
- Year of entry
- 1988
- Registration number
- AS06934
- Observations
Entry date: 1988 (from the redistribution of the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo [MEAC] collection)
- Credit
Donation from the Exhibition of Young Scholarship Artists 1980, 1981
A philosopher by training with a solid literary background, Chema Cobo’s early works reveal influences from philosophers and writers such as Gilles Deleuze and Fernando Pessoa. Language occupies a central place in his artistic practice: he transforms literature into a spatial, chromatic metaphor, playing with words and the symbolic value of images. He conceives painting as a game of mirrors, false perspectives, disjointed spaces and the optical decomposition of reality. All of this is evident in works such as Smoker, which Cobo himself defines as ‘a conjurer of right angles’.
María Teresa López Flores