Victor Cordero - Portrait

Portraiture is one of the most widespread artistic expressions, especially in painting, but also in sculpture, throughout the ages. Portraiture is, first and foremost, a description of the depicted subject, an attempt to convey their physiognomy and individual characteristics truthfully and naturally. With the progressive evolution of artistic research, the physiognomic description of the subject has also been accompanied by a psychological one. Therefore, over the centuries, portraiture has also become a means of introspective investigation of the subject, their character, and their state of mind. The processes of abstraction brought about by contemporary art have contributed to this type of investigation. The human figure (particularly the female figure) is central to Victor Cordero's Expressionist art: in his paintings, we find an investigation, conducted along the lines of existentialism and the analysis of human relationships, of a humanity captured in the everydayness of its gestures and rituals.

Whether in his individual portraits or in his couples' portraits, or in his scenes depicting social rituals, Victor Cordero has achieved an absolutely coherent and original pictorial language. Figures are repeated in a crystallized form that goes beyond the representation of individual features to aspire to encompass broader, universally relevant meanings. Cordero's existentialist art is not interested in external reality, but rather in the individual's interior, which the artist explores through his expressive means. The pictorial deformations that characterize his paintings are, therefore, the vehicle for expressing his existentialist anxieties. The most significant aspect is that Cordero achieves all of this in a highly original formal manner, of great artistic impact. His pensive figures, seated or leaning on tables, gazing at the viewer with both intensity and detachment, cannot fail to recall German Expressionism, even in their exaltation of a harsh and angular plasticity. However, this model is reworked by Victor Cordero, in a new guise contextualized to his Caribbean origins. His subjects thus take on a folkloristic freshness that somehow tempers the seriousness of his introspective investigation. This can be seen in the vivid colors and the painter's search for strong, intense juxtapositions. Furthermore, his strongly structural brushstrokes (obviously borrowing from Cubist explorations) in the definition of square volumes have an archaic expressive force, reminiscent of the sculpture of some ancient, tribal civilization.

Víctor Cordero Salas (1961) is a Cuban artist who graduated in drawing and sculpture from the San Alejandro Academy of Plastic Arts and is a member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. Although he has experimented with caricatures, comics, posters, ceramics, and installations, painting remains his preferred medium, with the female figure as a common thread, a recurring image in all his compositions, yet without falling into monotony. Cordero has exhibited several times in solo and group shows in Switzerland, Cuba, and Italy. In 2020 and 2022, Victor Cordero participated in the Rome Biennale.

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