Adel Abdessemed started ‘Cocorico Paintings’ a new series of works, in 2017. Composed by used printed tins, this new body of works continue to reveal Abdessemed’s fascination of ductility of materials, the intrinsic possibilities that each of them possesses. In fact, the artist doesn’t limit himself to working with their specific concrete and aesthetic characteristics and potential, but he, instead, wants to emphasize and enhance the cultural and historical connotations and semantic qualities which each material bears. On each work of this new series, mostly in the lower left corner, a word or a phrase is inscribed. It is neither a title, nor a semantic or narrative indication, nor a slogan that stands out on the pictorial background. It is rather a side note, from which emerges all the evocative potential of the combinations between words and pictorial and material background.