FERNANDO COBO (Madrid, 1975).
"Paris from Notre Dame", 2022.
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 114 x 162 cm.
His work shows influences of both the master from Tomelloso and the American hyperrealism of Richard Estes and his contemporaries. Although his brushstrokes are far removed from the photographic obsession that confuses painting with snapshots, in the artist's own words: "when you get close to the painting the brushstroke can be appreciated, that is the greatness of painting; it would be unthinkable not to see brushstrokes in a Velázquez, a Caravaggio or a Renoir", which is why his works, normally in large format, can be contemplated in the dramatic aspect close to photography, in the distance and in the artisan aspect showing strokes and paint, in the proximity.Hyperrealist painter, specialising in urban landscapes, as a result of his belonging to the group that opted for urban realism thanks to the influence of Antonio López in the 1990s. Fernando Cobo began his training at the age of fifteen, studying drawing and painting with the master landscape painter Machado de Camas. This apprenticeship came to an end nine years later, and it was then that he began to hold his first solo exhibitions. At the same time, Cobo studied Library Science and Documentation, and later Journalism, at the Carlos III University in Madrid. He thus combined his pictorial activity with his literary activity, another of his passions, the result of which is a novel published in 1999 and various contributions to literary magazines. Since his first exhibition, held in 1995, Cobo has had more than thirty personal exhibitions, mainly in Madrid and Barcelona, in galleries such as Victoria Hidalgo, Galileo Galilei, Iris, Dionís Bennassar, etc. He has also participated in the Lineart International Fair in Belgium (2008) and in the V Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Art Arte Genova in Italy (2009). Fernando Cobo is one of the artists who form part of the Worldgallery label, which focuses on the dissemination of works of art in hotel environments, together with artists of the stature of Subirachs and Lorenzo Quinn, among others. His work is currently represented in various private collections in Spain, as well as in prestigious offices, hotels, private clinics, law firms, legal and judicial institutions, foundations, etc.