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ARCUAL’s launch in Art Basel Miami Beach 2022. Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

1 December, 2022

On December 1st 2022, in the Miami sunshine, ARCUAL celebrated the launch of their salesroom. This new application enables seamless gallery and resale terms between artists, gallerists, and collectors, offering verified information about a consigned artwork.

Raúl Cordero’s Miami-inspired work, We Want Magic, Not Reality, presented by Mai 36 Galerie, was the first physical artwork to be sold and recorded on the Arcual blockchain. Raul and his gallery defined the consignment agreement between them, including resale terms for the artwork, the consignment terms for the gallery, as well as the price, and then sent the agreement to sell the work – all through Arcual.

This marked the first step of Arcual’s journey to put artists back at the centre of the art ecosystem, offering them greater ownership, transparency, and participation in their own markets.

See article 1 at Artnet News

See article 2 at Artnet News

“You Know Who You Are” @ El Espacio 23. Miami, Florida, U.S.A. (group)

28 November, 2022

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE:
RECENT ACQUISITIONS OF CUBAN ART FROM THE JORGE M. PÉREZ COLLECTION

This exhibition highlights works acquired since 2017 as part of an ongoing investigation and interest in art from Cuba and Cuban diaspora. It succeeds a significant donation of contemporary Cuban art to the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2016. Rather than a historical survey of Cuban art, this thematic exhibition brings together artists from different generations who share collective experiences yet take very personal approaches to their practices.

You Know Who You Are is a statement of confidence and resistance. In the context of Cuban art and culture, knowing yourself, having a voice, and defending your beliefs is an act of defiance. The fragmented history of Cuban art has been subjected to political readings, to the dichotomy of inside and outside—the island and its diaspora. It has been marked by intentional omissions, by the erasure of talented artists whose forced or voluntary exiles extracted them from the cultural continuum of the nation, and by generations of Cubans who were not born on the island. Amid so many collective dramas, this exhibition focuses on each artist’s personal journey.

The artists in this exhibition revisit Cuba’s past and examine its present by questioning history, deconstructing hierarchies, and reflecting on notions of representation, race, gender, diversity, and human rights, while others reclaim a connection with the island by referencing its physicality or its place in collective memory.

You Know Who You Are was co-curated by Anelys Alvarez and Patricia Hanna from El Espacio 23.

See at The Miami Herald

See at Galerie Magazine

“Reality Is The New Spam” at Wizard Gallery Milano, Italy (solo)

27 October, 2022


WIZARD GALLERY is pleased to present a new solo exhibition of Cuban artist Raúl Cordero, Reality is the New Spam. This project will showcase a series of 7 paintings and digital works. While the paintings individually exhibit specific references and standalone phrases and symbols, the paintings collectively present a study of the visual manifestation of language. The blurred images overlain with text and signs in complicated font requires that viewers engage both sides of the brain. Rather than simply looking at the art, a viewer must instead “read” the art.

About two decades ago, a utopic virtual imitation of the world started to be created by computer visionaries and later contributed to by almost every human on the planet. To this day, what looked as a computer joke has become a digital layer that overlaps everything, proving to be very accurate, attractive and efficient enough to modify life and solve our everyday problems.

We probably won’t know how to live anymore without the help of this digital layer. Today we live assisted by personal intelligent devices we carry in our pockets and spend more time talking to robots than to other human beings. These robots continuously force us to prove that we are human, and we answer for the sake of advancing the digital navigation, and therefore the navigation of life itself. Interacting purely with reality would not take us very far today, at least to the high efficiency standards of the performance society we have created.

REALITY IS THE NEW SPAM is a series of  both physical and digital  works that amuse the boost from the real to the virtual. The versatile in harmony with the rigid. Ourselves versus our social avatars. The satellite locations overlapping the landscapes. The blurred next to the “hard edge”. A lifelike image against a vectorized field. The innate touching the man-made. Intelligence versus artificial Intelligence. Somehow, a meditative depiction of our present days.

See at Wizard Gallery’s Home Page

See at Art Tribune

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Raúl Cordero: ARTE LENTO PARA MULTITUDES RÁPIDAS at Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC). Badajoz, Spain (solo)

15 August, 2022


Raúl Cordero (La Habana, 1971 radicado en Ciudad de México) es una figura excepcional dentro del panorama visual del Arte Cubano de los últimos treinta años, formado en la Academia de San Alejandro, el Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial (La Habana, Cuba) y el Graphic Media Development Centre (La Haya Holanda), es un artista interesado por la capacidad narrativa de la imagen y del arte en sí, por eso investiga desde hace décadas en sus vericuetos lingüísticos por donde se entremezclan arte, diseño, tecnología, tradición y contemporeaneidad, donde lo dicotómico es habitual, donde la idea de dentro y fuera, esta expuesta, manifiesta como espacio dubitativo, para Cordero el arte es un lugar incierto, pero preciso; de ahí sus libertades, sus licencias, sus atrevimientos formales donde nunca es lo que se espera de él, demasiado fuera de órbita, descolocado de toda nomenclatura, ni diseñador puro, ni pintor puro, ni videasta puro, ni instalador puro. Sino, justo, lo contrario, un creador capaz de mezclar todos esos lenguajes en una amalgama que provoca una experiencia de seductora extrañeza.

Creador de un remix inclasificable por su versatilidad y por su manera de escabullirse de etiquetas, transgrediendo los sistemas de una cultura en transición, del final de siglo al inicio de un milenio, de una cultura analógica y óptica a la apabullante impronta digital de nuestros días, donde no hay fronteras, donde lo global se impone y lo local se difumina, más allá de lo atávico, algo de lo que el artista huye, niega. A pesar de que ha expuesto cientos de ocasiones como “artista cubano”, lo cubano precisamente no es una concepción que le interese reinvidicar, porque es un hombre de mundo, no ahora que vive en México, sino desde siempre, nunca ha estado interesado en los cliclés sino para romperlos.

Raúl Cordero es un artista que atraviesa así, -transversalmente- todos modelos y dispositivos del arte de su tiempo (léase: pintura, dibujo, video, fotografía, escultura, instalación, enviroment, performance) desde una preocupación constante: “cómo encontrar el arte de narrar historias”.

Arte lento para multitudes rápidas es la tercera muestra personal del artista, en una institución pública en España, en este caso, exhibiendo tres bloques de trabajos recientes. Una selección de once pinturas realizadas en el último lustro (siete de las cuales formaron parte de su muestra personal en el Museo Nacional Palacio de Bellas Artes de La Habana en el año 2019), tres video-instalaciones de tres momentos específicos de su producción audiovisual (dos de ellas inéditas) y un espacio de conexión donde cohabitan una instalación de luces con piezas de videoarte y registros gráficos (que van desde fotografías digitales hasta NFTs), que nos aportaran una perspectiva crítica de cómo piensa el artista, cómo ejecuta su trabajo y cómo lo ensambla como un conglomerado de sensaciones y dudas, aciertos y juegos azarosos donde la belleza y lo poético siempre han rondado.

En un tiempo donde nos pasamos la vida mirando las pantallas, el artista pretende distraernos (mediante la lectura que lleva un tiempo neuromotriz más lento que la visión de imágenes siempre tratas por la mano del artista defoncándolas) nos obliga a detenernos de esa distracción, obligándonos a leer, descifrar, darle un significa otro la lo que vemos; recordándonos el papel sanador del arte como espacio emocional, lugar donde se halla lo perdido, donde se reconforta el espíritu, donde se libera la vista con mecanismos donde el reordenamiento de las cosas las embellece, aunque menos sea menos o más y donde la presencia de recurso post-moderno del tempo, está desacelerado, ralentizado, como mismo lo está la meditación, el conocerse a si mismo, o el estar en paz. Un bucle que de alguna manera lo convierte en un resistente, un disidente, a pesar de sus Un neobarroco rondar, siempre en elipsis, mediante el cual nos pide detenernos.

Como si el artista nos dijera: “Para. Respira hondo. Mira esto”.

Omar-Pascual Castillo
Comisario/Curator

THE POEM at Times Square, New York (video)

5 August, 2022


We are very happy to share this video documentation of Raúl Cordero’s piece THE POEM, produced by Times Square Arts, New York.

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Raúl Cordero: THE WORLD IS FLAT. Fredric Snitzer Gallery. Miami, Florida, USA. March, 2024 (solo show)

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    • Raúl Cordero and The Measure of Art
    • Raúl Cordero: Video Without Video Equipment
    • New Rules of the Game: Painting As Process
    • Being Raúl Cordero: Aporias of Painting
    • Raúl Cordero: Seeing it my way
    • Painting… and why not?
    • La pintura de Raúl Cordero o la sacralidad de la imagen
  • REPRESENTATION
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