Title

Christina Cordero: Crossing over.

Venues

Port Jackson Press Print Room. (7 May 2005 – 4 June 2005)

Date

(2005)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (VIC).

Web address

http://www.portjacksonpress.com.au/showexhibiti...

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Christina Cordero’s third solo exhibition at Port Jackson Press, Melbourne will feature a series of intricate and richly textured multi-plate colour etchings depicting an intriguing mythical and imaginative world. Cordero has developed a national and international profile for her distinctive enigmatic and complex images alluding to dreams, poetry and music, and exploring the notion of a woman’s cultural, spiritual and personal journey.

Her current body of etchings signify an expansion in her work, reflecting her passion for music, particularly composers such as Mozart, Beethoven and Vivaldi.  In recent years, Cordero has developed a number of images as a homage to composers Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage, referencing Cages’ “revolutionary” type of notations.  Works such as Susurrations, Concertina and Double performance are enriched by musical references. They contain a rhythmic, fluid and melodic quality through the incorporation of movement and repetition in the compositions.

According to Cordero,

                        “I love to listen to the music from the waves,

                          to the fables and the secrets riding in the sand

                          to the voices from within,

                          to my half-floating dreams,

                          to the stories and the legends flying from afar”

Other works in the exhibition reveal a complex symbolic vocabulary of recurring motifs such as boats, fish, crescent moons and hearts. In Crossing in twilight, Lunar Variation  and other powerful images, women either float enigmatically in boats moving across water or lead the boats containing groups of women, symbolising the artists continued fascination with the notion of a journey and the role of women in contemporary society.

Christina Cordero arrived in Australia from Chile in 1973 and since then has developed a national and international profile as a visual artist, participating in numerous exhibitions throughout Australia and overseas. She has received a number of major international awards for her prints including the 19^th international mini print award in Cadaques, Spain and the Grand Prize, Biennale Internationale d’Art Miniature, Canada.  Her work is represented in major public col