Manuel Benchico - Mess-iah

Manuel Benchico is a painter who lives and works in Cologne. He studied art and design at the Rhein-Sieg Art Academy in Hennef/Bonn.

His works depict people as distorted and deformed in our fast-moving, technological world, with the human as a 'glitch' in a new digital world that is changing our society and developing human nature further.

Benchico's mask-like portraits, which often appear fragmented, raw, and sometimes unfinished, depict modern people in our turbulent times. Faces full of fear, worry, and confusion, but also full of pride, self-confidence, and beauty. As complicated and multi-layered as people and life are. The color palette in his works appears bright, loud, and alarming. On the other hand, however, it is also lively and life-affirming. A world rich in contrast that creates a captivating tension and draws the viewer through the multi-faceted paintings.

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