Historical interview / primary source · José Cosme / Roma 2000

Interview by Guillermo Gómez-Ferrer with José Cosme, published in the catalogue José Cosme / Roma 2000. The conversation documents Cosme’s own artistic position at the turn of the century: the work as existential proposition, the spectator as participant, process over product, abstraction as communication, context as part of meaning, and the relationship between art, theology and lived experience.

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
• Interviewer: Guillermo Gómez-Ferrer

Historical significance

This interview shows that several concepts associated with José Cosme’s current artistic-research identity were already explicit in 2000: work as process, dialogue with the viewer, the inseparability of art and life, continuity/discontinuity, and the search for a non-reductive relation between art, theology and existence.

Selected statement by José Cosme

“Más que contemplativa, existencial.”

Keywords

José Cosme · Guillermo Gómez-Ferrer · interview · Roma 2000 · art and life · spectator · process · existential art · art and theology · abstraction

Rights note

This page documents the interview and its historical significance. It does not reproduce the complete copyrighted interview.