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 addresses structure, matter, light and transcendence, relating Cosme’s search to modern and contemporary references including Paul Klee, Mark Rothko, Antoni Tàpies and El Greco. Simongini identifies an early concern with making the invisible perceptible through formal reduction, material presence and an interior, non-naturalistic image of the human being.
“El ser del Hombre.”
Gabriele Simongini, in José Cosme / Roma 2000. Palazzo Santi Apostoli, Rome, 1–15 September 2000. Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana; Generalitat Valenciana, 2001. ISBN 84-482-2784-0.
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