Cordero’s evocative paintings are simultaneously realistic and ethereal, bridging the gap between the real and imaginary in such a way that he almost creates a parallel world of his own. Primarily a landscape painter, the grandeur of Cordero’s scenes belie the reality of his own surrounds – he resides in a quiet outer suburb of Adelaide, but is an avid traveler who soaks up what he observes, processing this into a magical world of his own creation.
“At present, I am concerned with the Wilderness, not so much as a place, but as a manifestation of the ethereal, a freedom from the known, and the constructed. A dual identity, both empirical and subliminal, it is the Horizon—an illusion of the imagination, a portal to something other”, he says.
Gippsland Art Gallery
1 June to 21 July, 2013
Victoria
The Moment of Silence, 2013, oil on linen, 102 x 198cm
Courtesy the artist and Mossenson Gallery