1987-Buenos Aires, AR
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Berlin and Los Angeles
Comas uses industrial materials such as household paint and cement to create paintings suggesting an ever- changing urban environment. In his latest works, which he produced in Berlin, he combined these materials with photography and UV printing. The visual tension in Comas’ pieces is rooted in his thematic preferences. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, educated in Paris and living between Los Angeles and Berlin, he uses the construction and deterioration of metropolitan cities as a starting point for his canvases. By overlaying printed images of shadows on their slightly textured surface, he explores the intersection between green spaces and and the urban landscape of the city.
Another topic often investigated by the artist is the effect of civil and political intervention on the urban space. His paintings, hardly ever pristine, often include elements of the – at first – visual consequences of vandalism, gentrification, graffiti or urban decay. Thus, they become reflections on the citizen’s role in not only the tangible, but also the intangible changes happening to her or his surroundings.
Comas is an observer of the space he evolves in; while his previous works, produced in Los Angeles, were dryer and tended towards a monochromatic palette, the works produced in Berlin include colors and lush, organic shapes.
EDUCATION
2007-2012
MFA, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, FR
2011
The Cooper Union, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
ZONA MACO with DUVE Berlin (February), Mexico City, MX
Solo show at Steve Turner Contemporary (June 2016), Los Angeles, CA
Untitled, with Steve Turner Contemporary (December 2016), Miami, FL
2015
Days Go By, DUVE Berlin, DE
art berlin contemporary, with Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA
Open Studio, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Recent Works, Juan Vergez & Patricia Pearson Collection, Buenos Aires, AR
2012
Entropies Magiques, graduate exhibition, Beaux Arts, Paris, FR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Extraction, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA
2013
De Leur Temps (4), Adiaf, Hab Galerie, Nantes, FR
2010
Un Regard Autre, Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, FR
2009
In Between, un étrange familiarité, Château Musée de Nemours, Paris, FR
Source: Duve Berlin
