Mateo Cohen

(Bogotá, 1981)

Mateo Cohen Monroy is a Colombian visual artist known for deconstructing paintings and turning them into sculptural objects. After painting figurative images in oil on canvas, he literally strips the paint off the stretcher and reassembles it, sometimes sewing fragments together, to create works that challenge the boundary between painting and sculpture. This process recalls Lucio Fontana’s slashed canvases and invites viewers to look beneath the surface of a painting【21】.

Cohen studied visual arts in Bogotá and later earned a master’s degree in fine art in Berlin, where he was a master student of Professor Pia Fries. He currently lives in Berlin and has exhibited his work in Bogotá and Germany. His series **Two Lines Separating** and works like **Deep Surface**, **Parallel Perspective** and **Untitled** explore the tension between two‑dimensional surfaces and three‑dimensional space.

*Linea y Color* collaborates with Mateo Cohen to offer limited‑edition prints of selected works from his "deconstructed painting" series. High‑resolution photographs capture the textures, folds and seams of his reconstructed canvases. Each print is made on archival paper, signed and numbered, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Collecting a Cohen print supports an artist who blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and conceptual art.