Study of Two Pears

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. He describes Study of Two Pears as ‘... the title of a poem by Wallace Stevens:
The Pears are not seen As the observer wills.[…] 
lyrics empty of meaning, turned into colour, as many horizons as there are objects in the painting, each figure creating its own individual space. Two Pears dripping with colour and the Head-Pear, a cold metamorphosis. Stanzas as a springboard for painting, exorcising me from the poem.’

María Teresa López Flores