Artworks made in Indian ink and Watercolour. I started this series in 2005 by visiting a friend who had a surrealist painting on his wall that reminded me of the works of Giorgio the Chirico. The use of symbols to communicate with the viewer invited me to start this series.
This work is part of the series 'Imaginary Rooms' that I started in the beginning of november 2005, in response of a surrealistic painting in the style of Giorgio De Chirico, that I saw hanging on the wall when I visited a friend. It will be the first time that I use visually recognizable elements in my artwork trying to set up a kind of communication with the viewer.
Working method: I started developing this method during model class in 1995. As I wanted to be more accurate in my model drawing I started blind drawing, This is a technique where you look at the model and you stop looking at your paper. The next logical step for me was then beginning to draw without looking at reality. From 1996 I start using 'Écriture Automatique' as my main working method. I start from a blank sheet of paper where upon I draw immediately with Indian Ink on paper. In fact, I have no idea or plan what I'm going to create. That's exactly the state of mind that I want or need. I start drawing a few lines and soon a form dictates me what I have to draw next on the image to keep the composition in balance. Little by little the composition forms itself.
Conceptual Ink Drawing and Watercolour Painting. Original artwork created by Sandro Cocco.
This is a one of a kind artwork, created, drawn and painted by me. I always sign my work on the front of each artwork.
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Materials used:
Indian Ink and Winsor & Newton Watercolour on Montval by Canson 300gsm Heavyweight Acid Free Artist Paper
Sandro Cocco
Artist
I'm born in 1973 in Antwerp in Belgium. My father was Sardinian and my mother Flemish. I started with studying Illustration (1993) where I learned the basic techniques: observation, light and shadow, perspective, color and the use of drawing and painting materials but I choose to study Painting (1994) the next year because I wanted to explore my personal expression. During my studies of Painting (1994-1998) I studied two years observation by nature: nude, still life and interiors that ended in blind observation drawings. But in the third year I started to make my own work. I started exploring 'Automatic Drawing' and soon began to explore other mediums like Printing, Sculpture, Installation and Video. In the fourth year I felt the need to explore narration and this resulted in graduating with 20 digital Photo-Collages. I continued three years to make collages (1999-2001). Because of this I decided to study Comic and Illustration in (2001-2003). I made a biographical Graphic Novel and published a few short stories but I felt like making some 'free' artworks again without any boundaries of expression. So in 2004 I started to make abstract 'Amorphous' drawings' again in 'Automatic Drawing mode'. In 2005 I visited a friend who had a Surrealist painting hanging on his wall. The use of symbols invited me to begin my ongoing series 'Imaginary Rooms' in which I use visual motives. For me it's some kind of diary in 'Automatic drawing' but I hope to communicate with the viewer.