Looking at a work by Max Cobalto is like looking at the sky at night: a dark mantle where small lights known as stars are glued together. We all know that the sky is not flat, that our eye and our imagination deceive us, and that they place, at a specific point, a star right next to thousands or millions of others. In Max Cobalto’s painting the same occurs, the stars are his colors and the dark sky is his canvas. The painting is aerial, it floats, it approaches or moves away depending on the precise moment, and in the end it settles on the clear canvas, by an incomprehensible law of gravity.

Beyond this observation, perhaps too literary, we find in this new Cobalto’s exhibition some elements that indicate the pictorial evolution that this »hidden» artist is offering us. From his great colorist wisdom, which we can observe in the quality of the combinations that he proposes in each canvas, Cobalto takes a step forward indicating that not everything is color and combination but, on this occasion, the subtle proposal is based on the brushstroke, in the texture of the color, in the aquatics that compose it, in its mixtures and impurities.

His work always has the same hallmarks: color, combination and position. With these three elements they constitute a pictorial universe that nears poetry, the essence of the literary, the musical note, the minimum detail, that which turns any daily thing into something magical, unique and unrepeatable.

Painting of sincerity, painting of simplicity, painting of pleasure…
Again a total exhibition with a great step forward, subtle and sure as all the work of Max Cobalto.

19-12-2023 to 12-01-2024

Alzueta Gallery Barcelona Turó

C/ Josep Bertrand, 3
08021 Barcelona

Tel: +34 93 404 16 82
turo@alzuetagallery.com

Monday to Friday 09:00 – 14:00 / 16:00 – 19:00