Fernando Cobo

FERNANDO COBO (Madrid, 1975).
"Geisha", 2024.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 40 x 40 cm; 52 x 52 cm (frame).
His work shows influences of both the master of Tomelloso and the American hyperrealism of Richard Estes and his contemporaries. Although his brushstroke is far from the photographic obsession that makes confuse painting with snapshot, in the artist's words: "that when you approach the painting the brushstroke is appreciated, that is the greatness of painting; it would be unthinkable not to see brushstrokes in a Velázquez, a Caravaggio or a Renoir", so that his works, usually large format, can be seen in the gimmicky side close to the photographic, in the distance and in the craft showing strokes and paint, in the proximity.Hyperrealist painter, specialized in urban landscape, as a result of his belonging to the group that opted for urban realism thanks to the influence of Antonio Lopez 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 ended nine years later, and it was then that he began to hold his first solo exhibitions. Simultaneously, Cobo studied Library Science and Documentation, and later Journalism, at the Carlos III University of 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 several collaborations in 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 are part of the Worldgallery label, focused on the dissemination of works of art in hotel environments, along with artists such as Subirachs or Lorenzo Quinn, among others. His work is currently represented in various private collections nationwide, as well as in prestigious offices, hotels, private clinics, law firms, legal and judicial institutions, foundations, etc.