The Olive Press
April 8 2010
Cultural Battle!
New York and Madrid beware because the Axarquia is competing for cultural supremacy.
The Riogordo Galería is set to open this week and will host the work of Spanish artist Gonzalo Cores Gomendio - who has showcased in the Big Apple and the Spanish capital.
Gonzalo's 2000-euro canvas, Mandala, will take pride of place in the gallery.
Gallery owner Ken Church admitted: "I was delighted when Gonzalo agreed to show some of his work. He has had successful exhibitions in New York and Madrid. So I think it is fair to say that Riogordo is competing in the art world," Church quipped.
Sur in English
July 2 2010
Writer: George Prior
.At the age of just seven years old, Rosana Martinez de Lahidalga Englisova, has started her own art collection with a painting by local artist, Gonzalo Cores Gomendio. "She is starting her collection very early," said the gallery owner: "Her choice of a piece of modern art cleaned out her savings, even after negotiating a good deal, but it will be worth it because Gonzalo is a superb investment. "Sergio, Rosana's father, also bought one of his best paintings for his home in Seville," confirms Ken.
El Cultural (ABC)
17 March 2001 Nº 477, page 5
Writer: Martín Casariego
...From astronomical to scientific look at the images from Gonzalo Cores,
the artist from Madrid who has developed most of his artistic career in
New York: the exhibition in the Centro Cultural Galileo in Madrid was called
Trayectoria desde Nueva York. In this exhibition Cores showed some disquieting
images, which bring to mind photos of galaxies or cells, in that mysterious
brotherhood between the big and the small, and which makes us realize just
how small we are, incapable of finishing both the small and the immense...
Translated by Milos Fulton-Peluffo
Revista Crítica de Arte
April 2001, Nº 159, page 13
Writer: Raul Sanz
The artist Gonzalo Cores expands his vision beyond infinity where the rational
conflicts with the imagined, or dreams with consciousness. He seeks the
expression of concepts through the exaltation of color. He manages to combine
what he sees and what he imagines through abstract representations made
up of sinuous forms of a potent dynamism which introduce the viewer to his
personal imaginings. He experiments with different forms and exposes them
to his own criteria, in some cases they are reduced to stains of color and
in others they are distorted to translate into the art the expression of
feelings and experiences.
Gonzalo Cores concentrates expressive strength on the shapes and colors
and turns his paintings into autonomous realities, which, like music, express
the inner needs of the artist.
The artist possesses an expansive palette which focuses, among other things,
on browns and blues. He orders them impulsively which, in turn, introduces
us to a dream world.
Through his microscopic vision he introduces us to a passionate hurricane
of colors and shapes which identify with life; existence moving in different
directions with different societies which you never know where they will
end up. He astounds us with the harmony between the colors which allows
us to escape the routines of daily life. The art allows the viewer to travel
to an ideal world where they bathe in color filled with life.
Gonzalo Cores uses his shapes as metaphors for life, from our cells, pillars
of our survival. He awakes a symphony of emotions in the soul where the
positive and negative of man are brought together and recognize the time
constraints which leaves an open door to hope in the search for what is
beyond.
Translated by Milos Fulton-Peluffo
Images and Dreams
August, 2001
Writer: Silvia Vega-llona
The paintings of Gonzalo Cores transmit a wide array of visual and internal
experience. The versatility of his representations make the spectator travel
through different worlds, bringing us from the urban space to the imaginary
qualities of the sky and ocean; or, from fear to tranquility and the marvelous.
Like the camera's eye explores different dimensions of our subjectivity,
Cores' eye penetrates the object with the intention to open new ways of
seeing. His representations reveal concepts of time, space, and movement
that would otherwise have stayed hidden to us. An original mind that bewilders
our sensations, inviting the observer to imaginary spaces, and thus awakening
our Benjaminian optical unconscious as much as our Freudian instinctual
unconscious. Cores has developed a technical montage capturing elements
from the Impressionists, Surrealists, and Abstractionists. His treatment
of color incorporates at moments the impressionists' strokes; the shock
like effect of some of these paintings evokes the Surrealists' cunning tension.
In the abstract he searches for a path for the urban world, world in which
he senses rupture end randomness.
Cores' themes portray natural and urban elements. He has been attacked by
geographical landscapes and maps, transforming them into the realm of the
impossible, lost islands signifying division and separation, unknown continents,
abstract cities with geometrical icons; geometrical figures that run parallel
but do not intersect. America, Europe, and Africa all places that he has
lived are transformed into imaginary continents, related and separate universal
puzzles. Manhattan becomes the symbolic island onto which Cores represents
the subjects detachment, distance and lack of proximity. Thus, his work
has captured our Postmodern Condition theorized by the French philosopher
Lyotard.
No matter his intention is to create harmony within the cities chaos and
subject's insulation, and he does so in his constant search of the movement
of the form, for the optical movement, for the movement of the subject's
experience within the continental and city spaces. During our dialogue about
his painting Atlantis, which represented America the land who was never
found, I asked him, "Do you want to conquer America?" he responded, "I want
America to conquer me". Cores touches the object and the object captivates
his mind creating a dialectical relationship with what he sees and paints.
The future is an important element in Cores' artistic concern. He represents
the future in blue manifesting that, "To look at the sky is to look at the
infinite, nothingness, the future, I am not more than that blue, blue, blue...
I like to look at the sky, looking at the sky you arrive to the point that
you cannot see anything but your own eye. The sky is like the water, then
the water has no color, it is blue a result of the reflection of the sky".
The landscapes and natural elements becomes the subject's mirror images,
but the subject is responsible for the historical outcome, responsibility
that lies in the understanding of our subjectivities, on the way in which
images act upon the world creating meaning. Cores' paintings act in our
minds.
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