Coco Davez
Faceless
Faceless are portraits based on the simplicity of the shapes and the combination of pure colours, which seek to capture the personal nature of each individual person. The face disappears to represent the energy of the person being portrayed.
Therefore, this realistic depiction uses pure colours, so that the feelings, experiences and memories transmitted by the person being portrayed to the author can be emphasised. Coco Dávez is able to make each portrait have its own personal character, as she is able to understand this in each person.
In a process of schematisation and synthesis, the young artist from Madrid turns the character into an icon, a symbol. She has fauvist influences, much like artists such as: Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Le Corbusier, David Lynch, Jacques Cousteau, Grace Jones, Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama etc. A pictorial journey through the popular culture of the 20th century, coming from the brush of one of the greatest artists at the moment.
Coco Dávez (Madrid, 1989) began her artistic career in London in 2010 when she began to work as an illustrator for the newspaper “El Mundo”. She has been progressing her career in the fields of art direction, photography and, the most well-known, painting.
To work she uses pencils, gouaches, ink or acrylics, combining them with different techniques. She has given workshops on illustration and has done exhibitions in Paris, Lisbon, Santiago de Chile, Queensland etc.
Her last big project was “Faceless”, which was an illustrated book published by Lunwerg and presented at FNAC Madrid and Barcelona.