Thu 30 Dec 2010
Entre Tierra – Ceramic Art of Cristina Córdova
Posted by A.A. under Art, Sculpture
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©2009-2010 Cristina Córdova
I began this post a year ago and never published it because I continue to feel that there is still some yet unexpressed aspect of Córdova’s work that I had not adequately described. Her ceramic images evoke in me the Phaedrus, in which Plato described the fall of the soul. They also evoke the River Styx, which for the Greeks formed the barrier between Earth and the Underworld. Her forms arise from that same psycho-emotional space from which our mythologies emanate. A space where only metaphors have meaning and geometric forms arouse our proto-memories to something distant and yet familiar.
©2009-2010 Cristina Córdova
Others have described her work as “Primitive Latin American” and perhaps it is. However, it is my opinion that her work is not specifically Latin; in my estimation its true power, much like all of the Great Myths, is in it’s universality. Her figures appear (more…)