Not sure I liked Cobi’s photographs of multiples of himself
in the landscapes doing stuff. I always felt Anthony Goicolea had that covered
and that using photoshopped multiples to express gender / sex roles in society became
a clichéed metaphor almost instantaneously. But now that the photographs are photo-realistic paintings, I must say the fantasy aspect is much more digestible.
I expect something different from paintings, and the bending of reality seems
like a basic element in the medium instead of a very dubious choice in creating
imagery. My understanding is the work is supposed to reference Hudson River School
paintings, and it could be a second since I’ve been to the National Gallery of
Art and seen a bunch of it. But I do remember a more fantastic version of the
land than appears in Cobi’s paintings. It would seem like a natural progression
in the work to incorporate some of the more exaggerated tendencies of the
Hudson River School painters when dealing with a painting of multiples of yourself,
but again, what do I know?
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