Roberto Cordone

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Roberto Cordone (* 11. April 1941 in Vallecrosia , Liguria ) is an in Cologne living Italian he painter and sculptor .

Roberto Cordone (2001)

Life

Roberto Cordone work on Movimento Ellissoidale (2001)

Cordone received training from the painter Enzo Maiolino , Bordighera . In 1957 the first sculptural works were created. In 1960 he moved to Germany. From 1966 he took part in individual and group exhibitions in museums and galleries and received commissions for large-format works in public places.

Cordone is an elected member of the Accademia Tiberina in Rome.

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Cordone's oeuvre mainly comprises sculptures made of bronze , stainless steel , titanium and aluminum alloys . In its beginnings, his works are committed to the tradition of classical modernism of the 20th century, which puts the representational aside and seeks new content in abstraction. In many of his works there is a "symbiosis of organically growing and technically constructed" (Gerlach-Laxner), which, according to Hans Ost , creates "a different, higher nature from the spirit".

A large number of works can be found in German museums and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome.

Work groups (sculpture)

Roberto Cordones Perpendicolari in his studio
Perpendicolari

After figurative beginnings, the group of works titled Perpendicolari emerged in the mid-1960s, with which Cordone succeeded in taking the “step from the representational into the abstract and at the same time the breakthrough to artistic independence”. His life-size Perpendicolari , created in vertical axiality , are slender sculptures made of metal, which are only attached to the ceiling almost imperceptibly by thin wires. They only touch the ground lightly and with the slightest push they can be made to rotate or vibrate so that they appear to float. Movement and apparent weightlessness become characteristics of artistic expression. In spite of all the non-representational nature and hardness of the material, the organic is always present in his work and can be sensually experienced, its shape being “based on human dimensions and proportions”.

Verticali

The verticali form a group of larger-than-life objects made of stainless steel, which are primarily designed for free space and their relationship to architecture. They consist of a column shaft and strictly methodically inserted spherical segments that are symmetrically or asymmetrically related to each other.

Componibili

The plastic sculptures Componibili from 1972/73 in the Bayer AG collection represent a special, new type of design, which can be set up in a variety of ways and thus always create new solutions. A further development can be seen in the sculpture 'Cyclopentane' (1973), which arose from the central element of the Componibili (tetrahedron).

Velari

The group called Velari develops from the Perpendicolari , sculptures that are also conceived axially and without a base. In terms of their mobility, these works do not appear to be dependent on the fixed vertical axis , but can be moved in various ways by the viewer. Their shape is reminiscent of the wave-like movement of sails in the wind or of wings, as can be seen in the religiously motivated wing sculpture Angelus (2004).

Elicoidali

Cordones elicoidali that 1991 again new group of sculptures spiral form, the "logical result of a long artistic work" are. They reveal a “new design principle and a remarkable range of variation” in the inventory of forms, with the aim of giving the sculptures free, multi-axial mobility across the entire space. The reduction of the plastic volume gives them an optical lightness despite the heaviness and hardness of the material, which seems to make them independent of the laws of gravity. The Elicoidali also show that with a rolling movement, the “edges of the objects create regular geometrical-spherical development surfaces on the floor”, whereby the three-dimensional sculpture appears projected as a flat shape.

Perpendicolare Elicoidale (1988) at Art Cologne, 2014

In the project "Sculpture and Dance" the Elicoidali were brought to the stage together with the Perpendicolari.

Movimento Ellissoidale (2001) in front of the ARAG Tower in Düsseldorf
Ellissoidal

In 2001 he designed the monumental sculpture Movimento Ellissoidale from an aluminum alloy , which stands in front of the ARAG Tower in Düsseldorf. An "inner pivot and pendulum bearing allows the large sculpture to maneuver flexibly like a sailing ship ... which is nautically correct in the wind".

Photo canvases "Sculpture and Dance"

In the photo canvases created in 1993, the groups of works by Perpendicolari and Elicoidali are the basis of the visual representation in clear relation to the project "Sculpture and Dance".

Cordone Photo Canvas of Sculpture and Dance (1995)

Locations (selection)

Museums

Works in public places

Solo exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Ars Viva 69. Georg Baselitz, Heinrich Brummack, Roberto Cordone ... Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft (Ed.), Cologne, 1969 (Horst Richter about ars viva award winner Roberto Cordone)
  • Cordone, Roberto et al. Becker, Wolfgang, Perpendicolari and Sculpture Vertical, exhibition Neue Galerie, Aachen 1972
  • Cordone, Roberto, Movimenti. Dance and Sculpture, Museum Morsbroich , Leverkusen 1995
  • Cordone, Roberto, Perpendicolari - Verticali - Works from 1967–1975 Osthaus Museum Hagen, Cologne 1975 (preface by Herta Hesse)
  • Cordone, Roberto, 'Sculpture and Dance' (contribution by Volker Neuhaus ), Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1990 ISBN 3-925520-21-X
  • Dizionario Bolaffi degli scultori italiani moderni (contribution by Giuseppe Marchiori on Roberto Cordone), Torino 1972, p. 103
  • Honisch, Dieter, (Ed.), Young Art in Germany, Edition Kunstbuch Berlin 1982, pp. 74/75 ISBN 978-3792502945
  • Susanna Partsch : Cordone, Roberto . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 21, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22761-2 , p. 191.
  • Annual ring 69/70. Contributions to contemporary German literature and art ( Eduard Trier on Roberto Cordone), Stuttgart DVA, 1969, pp. 225,388

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uta Gerlach-Laxner: Roberto Cordone . Ed .: Galerie Schlichtenmaier. Dätzingen Castle 2011 ( schlichtenmaier.de [PDF]).
  2. ^ Hans Ost: Roberto Cordone . Ed .: Galerie Apicella. Cologne 1990.
  3. ↑ Uta Gerlach-Laxner: Roberto Cordone. Galerie Schlichtenmaier, 2011, accessed on February 14, 2019 .
  4. ^ Hans Ost: Roberto Cordone . Ed .: Galerie Apicella. Cologne 1990.
  5. ↑ SculpTour Düsseldorf. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  6. ^ Bayer exhibition “From Beckmann to Warhol” in the Gropius building. In: Photo gallery, image 11. Retrieved on February 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ An angel in the garden. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  8. ^ Hans Ost: Roberto Cordone . Apicella Gallery, Cologne 1990.
  9. ↑ Uta Gerlach-Laxner: Roberto Cordone. Galerie Schlichtenmaier, 2011, accessed on February 14, 2019 .
  10. ^ Sculpture Park Schloss Morsbroich, Roberto Cordone. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  11. ^ Hans Ost: Roberto Cordone . Ed .: Galerie Apicella. Cologne 1990.
  12. ↑ a b Arte: 11/22/1993, WDR: 11/4/1994 (Ed.): Film: Dance and Sculpture "Heavy Metal and Light Steps" . 1993.
  13. ↑ Out and about in Düsseldorf: The high-rise in the countryside. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Gerhard Kolberg: Movimento ellissoidale. Roberto Cordone. Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-00-008324-3 .
  15. ↑ Mechanical tree. Retrieved February 15, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Cordone, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vallecrosia , Liguria