Cobelio Art

We are Teresa Marco and Jose Viciana — COBELIO — and we have been creating together since 2007. We both come from photography, and for years something curious kept happening: we loved our images, yet not their physical expression — flat, perfect, endlessly repeatable. It was the artist's eye, but the machine's hand. So we decided to intervene in the making: after years of self-taught research, our photographs of nature now live in hand-worked plaster reliefs, where no two pieces are alike.

We start from biophilia — that human need for the living — and move toward an emotional narrative: we alter reality to remain faithful to what we feel, not just what we see.

We are moved by themes such as the dichotomy between strength and fragility, the interactions between elements that invite us to imagine, immensity, or self-awareness of the present moment. To tell them, we understand art as a balance between subtraction and exaltation: a selective sacrifice that removes the obvious so the essential can emerge.

Our language is in dialogue with the ancestral — cave painting, classical bas-relief, Japanese printmaking, the botanical photography of Blossfeldt and Weston — reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. Each work lives in matter: v...

2018 — MA in Fashion Photography, Idep, Barcelona, Spain (Teresa)
2018 — Postgraduate in Advertising Still-Life Lighting, IEFC, Barcelona, Spain (Jose)
2011 — MA in Product Design, Elisava, Barcelona, Spain (both)
2010 — Industrial Design Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain (both)
1999–2002 — Oil painting, studio of Granada painter Antonio Gámez, Almería, Spain (Jose)