Critical writing · José Cosme / Roma 2000 · priority: high

In El ser del Hombre, art critic Gabriele Simongini situates José Cosme’s painting within a lineage concerned with the spiritual and interior dimension of the human being. The text discusses structure, matter, light and transcendence and relates Cosme’s search to modern and contemporary references including Paul Klee, Mark Rothko, Antoni Tàpies and El Greco.

Source

• Catalogue: José Cosme / Roma 2000
• Palazzo Santi Apostoli, Rome · 1–15 September 2000
• Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana
• Edition: Generalitat Valenciana, 2001
• ISBN: 84-482-2784-0

Critical relevance

Simongini identifies an early and explicit concern with making the invisible perceptible through formal reduction, material presence and an interior, non-naturalistic image of the human being. This is a key historical precedent for José Cosme’s later formulation of art as a form of knowledge.

Selected formulation

“El ser del Hombre.”

Keywords

José Cosme · Gabriele Simongini · Roma 2000 · art criticism · Klee · Rothko · Tàpies · El Greco · spirituality · abstraction · material painting

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