Jorge Cocco Santángelo
Sacred Events from the Life of Christ
Exhibit Info
This past exhibit ran from May 17, 2018, through October 1, 2018, at the Church History Museum. Learn more in the related content below.
In 21 paintings recently acquired by the Church History Museum, Argentine artist Jorge Cocco Santángelo captures the majesty of Jesus of Nazareth using straight lines, blocks of color, rounded forms, and angled and dramatic shafts of light.
Cocco calls his style sacrocubism because of his sacred subject matter and the clear influence of cubism, an early 20th-century art movement that abstracted objects to simple, geometric shapes. As a style, sacrocubism moves the viewer’s attention away from superfluous details—textures of fabric, the accuracy of historical backgrounds, or the impossibility of capturing an exact likeness of Christ—by depicting simple shapes that allow the viewer to focus on the essential and most holy aspects of the sacred events themselves.
Cocco calls his style sacrocubism because of his sacred subject matter and the clear influence of cubism, an early 20th-century art movement that abstracted objects to simple, geometric shapes. As a style, sacrocubism moves the viewer’s attention away from superfluous details—textures of fabric, the accuracy of historical backgrounds, or the impossibility of capturing an exact likeness of Christ—by depicting simple shapes that allow the viewer to focus on the essential and most holy aspects of the sacred events themselves.
“I hope that those who see the paintings will gain a stronger testimony that these things happened, that the Lord lives, that He is a powerful and a miraculous being, and that He is our Savior”
Jorge Cocco Santángelo
“Much Greater Things”
Learn more about the artist, Jorge Cocco Santángelo, and his sacrocubism style.