"Manuel Castro Cobos: The Importance of His Life / La importacia de su vida"
2002-02-07 until 2002-03-02
Open Studio
Toronto, ON, CA Canada

Manuel Castro Cobos creates intimate organic forms which pulsate with life through movement and colour, using small cream-coloured sheets torn from daytimers as unique supports for his works. Combining computer-generated images with various printmaking techniques and pastel drawings, Manuel Castro creates images of tribal symbols, lakes surrounded by finite seas, textures from his body and woodgrains presenting a fusion of nature and technology.

These images, printed/drawn directly onto a sheet representing a specific day of a month, exist as metaphors for life and death, the beginning and the end, and linear time.

Manuel Castro Cobos resides in Córdoba, Spain, where he is Associate Professor of Photography, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Seville. He has studied and exhibited internationally and has published numerous articles in international magazines including Printmaking Today and Grapheion. Solo exhibitions: Casa del cipres,Córdoba, Spain (2001); Posada del Potro, Córdoba, Spain (2000); The City Gallery, Leicester, U.K. (1999); Diputación de Córdoba, Spain (1999). Selelcted group exhibitions: Guest Artist, 3rd International Print Triennial Prague, Czecheslovakia, (2001); V Biennale europea per l'incisione 2001, Acqui Terme, Italy (2001); Gwynedd, U.K. (2000); Seville, Spain (2000).

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