The Viewing Room is Raúl Cordero Studio`s online exhibition space, where visitors can explore and collect new and past works from curated, online-only exhibitions.
Each edition of our Viewing Room runs for a limited time.
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Transient Poetry
The Prints July 16th – August 30. 2019
Transient Poetry
The Prints
The three prints presented here bring together the most significant aesthetic and conceptual features of the Transient Poetry series, which explore the artist’s vision of his surrounding world -in this case, the art industry- using the pictorial genre of landscape from a conceptual perspective: to look around and break down what you see.
Untitled (Local Art for Foreginers…), 2015
36 tints silkscreen print on Fabriano paper 300 gsm. Edition of 25
72 x 100 cm / 40 x 28 inches.
2,000 usd
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The paintings in Transient Poetry, reflect Cordero’s approach with their flickering, streakily blurred appearance redolent of individual images captured on TV screens. At the same time, they also play with, and within, the tradition of painting, which can only ever show a single image, no matter how much that image might contain.
– Axel Jablonski
Installation view of the exhibition Transient Poetry, at Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, 2015
Untitled (Art to be classified…), 2015
39 tints silkscreen print on Fabriano paper 300 gsm. Edition of 25
100 x 72 cm / 28 x 40 inches.
2,000 usd
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Untitled (Art waiting for approval…), 2015
32 tints silkscreen print on Fabriano paper 300 gsm. Edition of 25
100 x 72 cm / 28 x 40 inches.
2,000 usd
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It is precisely this aspect that Cordero typically explores, further underpinning it with added comments and statements which lend the images a self-reflexive subtext. And it is here that the poetic element comes into play, relativising the image once more while at the same time defining what the picture actually says and, with that, what its topic is – namely, the relativity and transience of a passing thought – in spite of, or perhaps precisely because of, the visual references to historical paintings or other, older visual sources. Cordero thus highlights a much broader cultural context. For example, by invoking the landscape in paintings of the seventeenth century Dutch artist Meindert Hobbema as an enduring theme in art. This play on visual references is evident, for instance, in his work Untitled (Curators pick…-after Hobbema), 2015, in which Cordero uses a succession of three images to parallel the tradition of the tryptich.
– Axel Jablonski
Installation view of the exhibition Transient Poetry, at Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, 2015
Cordero’s paintings are based on a fundamentally conceptual approach and, yet, at the same time, they reflect his love of melancholy, introspective painting. His interest in the point at which a work actually begins, and the processes and ideas it undergoes on the way to becoming an artwork, is expressed in the descriptive annotations and multilayered references to other media and artworks, which the frame of reference in his painting keeps in constant motion, without end.
– Axel Jablonski
Installation view of the exhibition Transient Poetry, at Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, 2015