CUCO
(Spain, 1979)
His collective projects and selection include the II Premio de Artes Plasticas UCLM, Vicerrectorado del Campus de Albacete (Spain, 2010); II Premio Joven de Pintura IberCaja, Museo Camon Aznar, Zaragoza (Spain, 2009); IX Premio de Artes Plasticas Pepe Espaliu, Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud, Cordoba (2008).
He was invited to take part in the Festival Nuevas Tendencias del Arte Contemporaneo EXPLUM, Puerto Lumbreras, Murcia (2010).
About him, it has been said:
“Cuco uses bizarre figuration, in tune with the provocative aesthetic style of Manuel Ocampo, in which El Zorro may be superimposed over an image of Christ Dead or a Mexican wrestler next to a rabid dog, without Messing out the cactus in the deserto r the dripping dirt of paint”
Fernando Castro Flórez
“Tension, violence and disturbance are also expressed by Cuco (...). This time coloured is used effervescently and intensely, although now it is set in the specific context of México and its heroes, such as wrestlers or El Zorro. These are mass heroes due to the lack of real heroes, and they use of violence and fighting. Violence in a society such as the one in México is part of the everyday lives of individuals, with street violence, violence at work, domestic violence and gender violence. Fast brightly coloured paintings that incluye the signs and icons of Mexican culture (...). The North Mexican frontier with the USA, Ciudad Juarez, in the State of Chihuahua, although it could be many other cities in the World. But here in Juarez, a frontier city of violence, corrupation, extortion and death, more than four hundred women have been assaulted, raped and murdered without their bodies having been found. Only sometimes are the remains of young women found, and no murderer has ever been charged or even traed. That is the reason for this image of mutilated breasts, which even denounces using words such as ´narco´ or ´muerte´ (...).
Margarita de Aizpuru
