Jorge Cocco Santángelo (born 1936) is a painter and professor of art from

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. He paints in a style he describes as ‘sacrocubism’ which portrays sacred events with several features of the post-cubist art movement. Cocco Santángelo was born in

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, Entre Ríos, Argentina, an Argentine city that lies on the western shores of the Uruguay River. Raised

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, he married Myriam Verbauwen in February 1962. They joined

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in June of that year, becoming Argentine pioneers. Due to their financial situation at the time and the lack of temples in South America, Santángelo and his wife were not able to be sealed together in the temple until 11 years after their baptisms. They traveled to

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and were sealed in the

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on October 4, 1973. Four years later, they were sealed as a family to five of their children in the

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Career

Cocco Santángelo likes to experiment with his art and explore new styles and cultures eventually settling on ‘sacrocubism’. As he experimented with approaches and mediums he made a living teaching art and art history. Moving for his career the family traveled to

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; Puebla, Mexico; back to Argentina; and later to the United States. Cocco Santángelo has taught art at numerous universities including University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico; College Cesaseo B. de Quiros de Concordia in Entre Ríos, Argentina; and the

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. Over the years he began to gain more acclaim and success as an artist. Numerous museums own pieces of his artwork including the

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, USA; Museums Municipales de San Telmo y La Case de Oquendo in San Sebastian, Spain; and the Museum of Washi Zokey in

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, Tokyo, Japan. His artwork has been included in numerous group shows and dozens of one-man shows since 1965. His series ''Sacred Events in the Life of Christ'' was displayed at the Spori Gallery at

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in Rexburg, Idaho. In 2020, Cocco Santángelo was the subject of controversy when a Catholic publishing company erroneously used his image of the angel Moroni on the cover of two Catholic publications.

Personal life

Cocco Santángelo and wife Myriam Verbauwen are the parents of six children. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

References

External links

Jorge Cocco Santángelo Official Website
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