Today we’d like to introduce you to Jorge Cocco.
Hi Jorge, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My vocation as an artist manifested itself at an early age in a natural way. I didn’t have formal or academic art training, but I taught myself how to draw and how to paint. I’ve done my best to develop this talent to the best of my ability over the years and my work has ended up being recognized and appreciated internationally. I’ve had exhibits in many galleries and museums across the globe.
Since I was a child, I always knew that I was going to be an artist. I never thought I could be something else. So even without formal training in the arts, and on my own initiative, I started drawing and painting since my childhood.
I tried painting and exploring all the art schools, classical and modern until I found my own style. The last few years I have devoted my efforts to depicting the Holy Bible. I call this style “sacro-cubism” because it is sacred art and I borrowed a little from “Cubism”, the art style associated with Picasso.
Art took me to travel to many countries until it brought me here in Dallas where I continue to work with great intensity.
There is currently an exhibition in the Museum of Biblical Art that will be open until May 2022, and a few days ago it was the debut of the Christmas 2021 stamp collection that I designed for Royal Mail, in Great Britain.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Now my biggest obstacle is time. I just don’t have enough hours in a day. Because, here where I am now, I have enough space and material, things that are not easy to get in other countries for an artist. In the past, my obstacle was getting funds to buy art supplies, or having a good place to paint while having to raise a young family with 6 children.
The current technology allows me to participate or be present all over the world almost instantly. And my son Amiel takes care of all the advertising, marketing, and administrative matters, which results in me being able to dedicate myself 100% to producing art. I am producing more art now than ever before. In other times I had to try to do everything on my own, and my time to create art was shortened a great deal. I could hardly produce because I also had to have other jobs to pay the bills.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
Art offers such a rich path that one can be infinitely renewing oneself. Fortunately, this allows an artist to be unique. Therefore, my work is always experimental even though I already have an established path.
My work aims to awaken in the observers’ emotions and mental states that, like music, will elevate them above their own human nature.
That is why my art has sufficient, but minimum representations of the visual world that surrounds us so that colors and shapes may not be subject to our conditioning and that they may express themselves independently from what we see with our natural eyes, just like music does. My work tries to make less concessions to natural forms and instead play freely and touch the spiritual fibers of the observer. I don’t paint what I see, I paint how I feel.
What do you like best about our city? What do you like least?
I like working with the music on, I like that I don’t have a schedule now. I work or rest when I want or when I need it. I like to see art created by others, I like touring museums and galleries. But, being from Argentina means I also enjoy watching a football game or tango dancers.
Nowadays collecting art is almost limited to people with resources, both financial and cultural. But art should be available to be appreciated freely by all people. Dallas has important museums that bring in works of art of the highest level and from anywhere in the world. This is a unique opportunity for all of us that live in the area to appreciate it, however, many people have not been trained to appreciate art and I consider it to be a deficit of the education system. There is a part of human development that is left without growth when art is not appreciated in all its forms.
Contact Info:
- Email: art@jorgecocco.com
- Website: www.jorgecocco.com
- Instagram: @sacrocubism
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jorge.cocco.31
