Magdalena Cordero

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Memory is an idea that connects my body of works. This concept attaches and provides numerous emotions that images cannot do in the same way. My work is base in a variety of things. Beginning with the idea of travel, I have work in several formats and different kinds of landscapes. A trip provides different cultural experiences in every place. People, foods, land, music, religion, art, are part of what we learn and see in travels and I like to put them into images. I prefer natural over than urban environments because of the colors; my palette is established by colors found in all the places I have visited. Landscapes of my own country, Chile, are source of eternal and especial inspiration to me. Since I was very young, I have traveled from north to south. Literature is another line of inspiration for my work. I enjoy reproducing the emotions that words have on me, and I like to interpret that into images for an audience to evoke an emotion as response. I built my work with memories and images that I have collected in several places or found in research for certain topics.

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My art is based on painting, drawing and printmaking. My work combines these three techniques in order to produce innovated new outcomes. Mixing them and creating a new image is what keep me inspire. There are always some elements of chance that lead me to discoveries and give me a different point of view in a work –and I like to take advantage of them. My first studies were in painting; melding that to other media such as printmaking, gives me the chance to create interesting results, and a better method on what I want to produce in a final work or image.  

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Curriculum​

 

​MA Art and the Book,

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design,

Washington DC, 2016

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MA in Art History

Adolfo Ibañez University,

Santiago, Chile, 2008

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​Plastic Arts

Finis Terrae University,

Santiago, Chile, 2006