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VICTOR CORDERO SALAS     - Cuba 

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Size

From the series, A Look,

acrylic on canvas cm 70 x 100

Acrylic on canvas cm 100 x 70

Seated woman

Sueños rosa Rosa sueña

oil on canvas cm 50 x 90

Acrylic on canvas cm 70 x180

Group of seated women

Breaking the mold

acrylic on canvas cm 85 x 130

Acrylic on canvas cm 170 x 200

The Critique

Words for the catalogue.


The poster, from its very emergence, became the most novel event in the visual arts universe by overflowing the traditional places for enjoying the work of art.                                                                                             Nelson Herrera Ysla

Persistence
If we take into account that the work titled Persistence opens the solo show by artist Victor Cordero, perhaps the doubt arises: why make it coincide with the title of the exhibition? You will agree that the question is cleared up when you, as the receiver, recognize in the interpretation an evident message through immediate communication, a fundamental feature of poster art. The term persistence is closely linked to the working method, to the constancy in the craft of this painter. Cordero presents the female figure as the primary center of his work, using it as a formal and conceptual pretext, seeking to reveal an image that communicates and dialogues with the target viewer.
In this artist, images—pictorial compositions—are constantly re-created through the incorporation and appropriation of different artistic movements from pop art, Impressionism, Expressionism, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Surrealism, among other artistic legacies. In this way, each element acquires new relations of meaning as it leaves its original context. He tries to turn over worn elements, in terms of a pictorial discourse that is rearranged from his creative perspective. Thus an ambiguous plastic, conceptual space prevails where objects have an iconographic and symbolic character, such as fruits, chairs, the table, the bed, among others.
According to the art critic and professor at the University of Rome, Marcello Carlino:
“Expressionism is precisely the dominant note… there is the intertextual adventure among the many traditions of the languages of art, enriched on the intercultural ground of dialogue, with the language that is characteristic of the Caribbean painter and bears the mark of his land; Cordero is a European painter of Cuba and a Cuban painter of Europe, and herein lies the appeal and the value of his work.”
Informal experimentation with color constitutes the decisive accent for his work. Hence the various variants on certain ideas, compositions or motifs, with female figuration at the center, which does not imply monotony or repetition, saved by a formal and technical richness akin to the graphic lineage, which attests to his foray into caricature, comics and
poster art: “To offer in order to obtain” has been a constant in the conceptual discourse, carried across different media and techniques as is the case of painting, drawing, collage, installation, ceramics. “To offer in order to obtain” is very relative and has to do with interpersonal, social relations… (states the artist).
This exhibition stands out from the previous ones for the level of artistic maturity achieved by the author, stemming from rethinking; it also stands out for the particularity of the seven works that compose it, each acquiring its own personality through the elaboration of dialogue, which requires a different way of doing, highlighting the fragmentation where he transposes codes of pre-established languages, among them comics. A figuration is noted where he combines the resource of caricature and comics with real elements in terms of volume and chiaroscuro solutions. It is a flat painting whose interest is the relationship of colors and the constant contrasts between them, achieving a behavior within an abstract expressionism that suggests form. All of this underpinned by mastery of drawing, which accentuates the expressive style of his works. Perhaps, then, we find ourselves in the presence of a revolutionary attitude in creative effort.
The term persistence finds its full justification in the aims contained in the show itself: to make visible the concerns that, from a creative point of view, preoccupy Cordero. For this, it would be fitting to count on the complicity of the attending public, who will have the last word.
   Lic. Mayra García Castillo

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