Sandro Cocco
About
Sandro Cocco was born in Antwerp in 1973 in Belgium, under the sign of Cancer, from a belgian mother and an italian father. He studied painting at the Charles the Great academy in Antwerp. He experimented in addition to traditional painting materials such as watercolor, oil and acrylic with various other forms of expression such as écriture automatique, amorphous ink drawings, sculpture, installation, video, and finally analog and digital photo collage. After studying painting he concentrated mainly on making digital photo collage. Shortly after, he decided to study comic at St Luke's, Ghent. After his studies comic he focused on making free ink watercolors.
Exhibitions:
• Projection of an oil painting in evolution, january, 1998, Antwerp
• Installation 'Bathtub', 1998
• My atelier as an aquarium, 1998, Antwerp
• Total Installation, Big-brother, Think-T(h)anks, projection of digital photo collages, 1998, Cultural Center, Antwerp
• Projection of an oil painting in evolution, Installation 'Bathtub' with photo collage, Installation Cloud-room, 1998, Antwerp
• Room of ideas, installation amorphous sculpures, 1998, Antwerp
• Digital Presentation of photo collages, Group Exhibition, Cultural Center, 1999, Turnhout
• Amorphous sculptures, calligraphies of a swimming-pool, 2000, Bruges
• Land-art Amorphe, sculpture dog-woman, half-reliëf of Kanako, my atelier as an aquarium, my atelier in mutation, 2000, Antwerp
• Presentation of a short-story 'The Visit', 2001, Ghent
• Presentation of my comic 'The Other Side', 2002, Ghent
• Presentation of my comic 'The Turntable', 2003, Ghent
• Presentation of my comic 'Comic about comic', 2003, Ghent
• Exposition 'Interiors' and etchings with Kanako Higa, 2009, Naha, Okinawa, Japan
• Exposition 'The Other Side', 2013, Rochefort
• Publication of my comic 'The Other Side' at the Pubishing house, Le Moule à Gaufres, Nancy, France, 2013
• Participation at Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême, France, 2014
• Participation at Festival BD Contern, Luxembourg, 2015
• Exhibition 'Les Mots en Folie', Dinant, Belgium, 2016
• Solo Exhibition, Fine Arts Academy, Namur, Belgium, mai 2017
• Solo Exhibition, 'Imaginary Rooms', Watertank, station of Jemelle, september 2017
Upcoming:
• Exhibition Florenville, Belgium, 2017
• Exhibition Arlon, Belgium, 2017