Mateo Cohen
Bio
Plastic artist born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1981. In 2004 he received a master's degree in plastic arts from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and in 2012, a master's degree Meisterschüler (student-teacher) from the University of the Arts in Berlin, Germany. Since 2002 Mateo Cohen has exhibited his works regularly in Latin America and Europe, both in group and individual exhibitions. He has been a professor at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá and has collaborated in the realization of various artistic projects in Colombia and Europe. Live and work in Bogota
Statement
Mateo's work is a reflection on the matter and support of painting. His works of abstract appearance emphasize the way they have been constructed, and their color appears as a derivative of this construction. The unusual use of the usual materials of painting (oil, canvas, stretcher) presents us with a traditional object of strange appearance. Paintings that do not look like paintings; paintings that have not been painted. In doing so, the artist invites us to put the category of painting in between it and forces the viewer to reflect on the material reality of the experience of art.
