Felipe Cohen
Bio
Graduated in Drawing and Sculpture from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo, SP, presented individuals at Kubikgallery, Porto, Portugal (2017, 2022); Galeria Millan, São Paulo, SP (2013, 2016 and 2019); at Morumbi Chapel, São Paulo, SP (2013); at Arco, Madrid, Spain (2010); at the Maria Antonia University Center, São Paulo, SP (2006), among other spaces. Among the collective exhibitions in which he participated, Pinacoteca: collection, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, SP (2020); Past/Future/Present: Brazilian contemporary art in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, SP (2019); Past/Future/Present: Contemporary Brazilian Art from the Museum of Modern Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA and Troposphere, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China, both in 2017; Affective Geometry, SESC Bom Retiro, São Paulo, SP (2016); Desert-Model “as above, so below”, Harold St. Gallery, London, UK (2015); Gold – a thread that sews art together in Brazil, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro and Imagine Brazil – Artists Books, Musee d'art contemporain de Lyon, France (2014) and Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (2013) ; 8th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, RS (2011); Nouvelles de São Paulo, L’École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France (2009), among others. He was nominated for the PIPA award in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2016 and was a finalist for the CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaça Award, in 2011. He received the illy SustainArt Award, ARCO Fair, Madrid, Spain in 2016; Atos Visuais - Funarte, Brasília in 2007 and Fiat Mostra Brasil, São Paulo in 2006. His works are part of important collections, including Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, SP; the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, SP and the MAR – Museum of Art in Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
Statement
Felipe Cohen's practice develops from the tension between traditional and contemporary ways of displaying the artistic object and from the study and rescue of recurrent problems in the history of art with the aim of reinterpreting and updating its meanings in the present. This tension occurs through the articulation of noble materials with banal objects of everyday use, thus creating both paradoxical forms that are forced to coexist intimately, and command of classic signs and genres in a dialectical process.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
