Jesus Cobo, Ecuador

The work of Jesus Cobo is, at its base, connected with the everyday. However, his sculptural work at once reaches a symbolic dimension originating with his relationship with the social environment. The path of Cobo, who is one of the greatest modern sculptors today, is enriched with an extremely personal vision of the thematic breadth that concerns him. Landscape, natural elements, and religious motifs are approached in a decidedly exceptional manner, the still life. Cobo plays with spaces, the masses, voids with a great ease, selecting carefully the principal planes of each composition. Marble, metal, and wood surrender obediently in the hands of this skilled artist, as if materials of his own creation without need of truce.