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VICTOR CORDERO SALAS     - Cuba 

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Measure

From the series, A look,

acrylic on canvas 70 x 100 cm

Acrylic on canvas cm 100 x 70

Mujer sentada

Sueños rosa Rosa sueña

oil on canvas cm 50 x 90

Acrylic on canvas cm 70 x 180

Grupo de mujeres sentadas

Rompiendo esquemas

acrylic on canvas cm 85 x 130

Acrylic on canvas cm 170 x 200

The Critique

Words to the catalogue.


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

Persistence
If we take into account that the work entitled Persistence opens the solo exhibition of the artist Victor Cordero, perhaps the question arises: why make it coincide with the title of the exhibition? You will agree that the question is resolved when you, as the viewer, recognize in the interpretation an evident message through immediate communication, a fundamental characteristic of poster art. The term persistence is closely related to the work process, the constancy in the work of this painter. Cordero presents the female figure as the primary center of his work, using it as a pretext both formally and conceptually, seeking to reveal an image that communicates and dialogues with the objective viewer.
In this artist, the images, pictorial compositions, are constantly recreated through the incorporation and appropriation of different artistic movements from pop art, impressionism, expressionism, art nouveau, cubism, surrealism, among other artistic heritages. In this way, each element acquires new relationships of meaning as it leaves its original context. He tries to turn over well-worn elements, in terms of a pictorial discourse that is rearranged from his creative perspective. He then dominates an ambiguous plastic, conceptual space 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 in the intercultural field of dialogue, with the language that is characteristic of the Caribbean painter and bears the mark of his land, Cordero is a European painter from Cuba and a Cuban painter from Europe, and here lies the appeal and value of his work.”
The informal experimentation with color constitutes the decisive accentuation for his work. Hence the various variations on certain ideas, compositions or motifs having as their center the female figure, which does not imply monotony or repetition, saved by a formal and technical richness related to the graphic lineage, which attests to his foray into caricature, comics and
poster art: “To give in order to obtain” has been a constant in the conceptual discourse, carried to different supports and techniques such as painting, drawing, collage, installation, ceramics. “To give in order to obtain” is very relative and has to do with interpersonal, social relationships… (states the artist)
This exhibition of his stands out from the previous ones, for the level of artistic maturity reached by the author, resulting from rethinking, and is also distinguished by the particularity of the seven works that make it up, each one acquires its own personality from the elaboration of the dialogue, which requires a different way of doing things, highlighting the fragmentation where he transposes codes of pre-established languages, among them comics. There is a figuration 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 constant contrasts between them, achieving a behavior within an abstract expressionism that suggests form. All this is underpinned by mastery of drawing, which accentuates the expressive style of his works. Perhaps then we are in the presence of a revolutionary attitude in the creative effort.
The term persistence achieves its full justification in the intentions contained in the exhibition itself, to make visible the concerns that, from a creative point of view, worry Cordero. For this, it would be appropriate to count on the complicity of the attending public, who will have the last word.
   Lic. Mayra García Castillo

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