MAURO CORDA

The Sculptor MAURO CORDA, of Sardinian origin and born in Lourdes in 1960, has followed sculpture courses at the School of Fine Arts of Reims and then the School of Fine Arts of Paris before obtaining a scholarship to pursue his apprenticeship at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. He is an heir of the great tradition of classical sculpture, claiming his affiliation to some great masters whilst also considering that art must question our modern societies.

Biography

Mauro Corda was born in 1960 in Lourdes at a family of Italian origin working in stone mason. His apprenticeship in Reims was done thanks to the sculptors Charles Auffret and Jean Cardot.

He continues with a stay at Villa Vélasquez in Madrid. After winning the prestigious sculpture prize, Mauro Corda began to exhibit in Parisian galleries.

From 1994, several French museums show his work. He has been recognized internationally with the exhibitions in Hong Kong, Chicago, Venice and Bologna …

Mauro Corda is a sculptor of the body. His figurative and monumental sculptures question the notion of identity and the human body in its limit states. He uses a wide variety of materials such as bronze, aluminum, iron, stainless steel, steel, glass to achieve his life-size, universal works, free from all community inclinations. The human body is laid bare without concession. All the art of the sculptor lies in the surface work, from the carnal vibration to the coldness of the mechanical material. It is the art of modeling that mastering its relationship with light, gives life to sculpture.

Mauro Corda is an artist with a traditional training It allows him a real mastery of the classical technique. He is also a disruptive artist: his sculptures challenge our certainties.
“No a priori or moral prejudice, no repugnance or modesty can preside over beauty. Humans fascinate me, they are everywhere, in the form that God or Nature gave them, gestation as well as agony. How to express it? Whether it is the acid youth, the pulp of maturity, the exhaustion of senescence, the skeleton, always, is essential. It is the gallows of sculpture, giving the volume that underlies life … “.

“Hustle our usual perspectives, interrogate our certainties, question the apparently unchanging ways in our relations to others, to animality, to the wilderness”
press release of the exhibition “Zoospective”Besançon citadel, 2018

Career

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES

2019

Mauro Corda - Zoospective, Morphospective, Mark Hachem Gallery, Bakou, Azerbaïdjan

2017

The artistic world of Mauro Corda, Galerie Cafmeyer, Knokke-Heist, Belgique

Chimères - Mauro Corda, Galerie Opera, Paris

2015

Un autre monde, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence , Italie

2014

Les insolites, Réfectoire des Cordeliers, Paris, France

Opera Galerie, Paris, France

2013

Ville de Porto Vecchio, Bastion, Galerie du Levant, Corse, France

Le Carmel à Tarbes, France

Galerie Bel air Fine Art, Genève, Suisse

2012

Galerie De Twee Pauwen, Den Haag, Pays-Bas

Opera Gallery, New York, USA

Indiferencia, Biennale de Cuba, La Havana, Cuba

Galerie Bel Air Fine Art, Porto Cervo, Italie

Metropole de Monaco, Opera Gallery, Paris

Itineraire, Ville de Sassari, Italie

Hôtel Lutetia, Paris

Galerie d’Art Perbet a l’Hôtel du Fer à Cheval, Megève, France

2011

Riflexion, Forte dei Marmi, Italie

Opera Gallery, Singapore

Opera Gallery, Londres, Royaume-Uni

2010

Opéra Gallery, Singapour

Galerie Marie Jose Degrelle, Reims, France

Galerie du Cardo, Reims, France

Tentation du portrait, Demeure des Comtes de Champagne, Reims, France

Tentation du portrait, Opéra Gallery, Paris, France

Galerie Mark Hachem, Beyrouth, Liban

Opera Gallery, Paris, France

2009

Galerie Tony Rocfort, Rennes, France

Galerie Dumonteil, Shanghai, Chine

Les Contorsionnistes dans la rue, Opera Gallery, Monaco

Galerie Bel Air Fine Art, Geneva, Suisse

2008

Opera Gallery, Séoul, Corée du Sud

Galerie De Twee Pauwen, Den Haag, Pays-Bas

Opera Gallery, Paris, France

2007

Galerie Tony Rocfort, Rennes, France

Opera Gallery, Londres, Royaume-Uni

Gallery Guy Flichy, Greenwich, Royaume-Uni

2006

Art Paris, Gallery Martin du Louvre, Paris, France

Opera Gallery, New York, USA

2005

De Twee Pauwen Gallery, Pays-Bas

Loft Gallery, Barcelone, Espagne

Museum Frederic Marès, Barcelone, Espagne

Galerie Teissedre, Paris, France

Gallery Opera, Hong Kong

2004

Galerie Teissedre, Paris, France

Galerie Tony Rocfort, Rennes, France

2003

Galerie Tony Rocfort, Rennes, France

Gallery De Twee Pauwen, Den Haag, Pas-Bas

Opera Gallery, Singapore

Galerie Teissedre, Paris, France

2002

Opéra Gallery, Singapore

Opera Gallery, New York, USA

Galerie Teissedre, Paris, France

2001

Galerie Tony Rocfort, Rennes, France

Gallery De Twee Pauwen , Den Haag, Pays-Bas

Galerie Teissedre, Paris

2000

Jamais Plus, Samaritaine, Paris, France

Galerie Michelle Boulet, Paris, France

Gallery De Twee Pauwen, Den Haag, Pays-Bas

Galerie Teissedre, Paris, France

1999

Gallery De Twee Pauwen, Den Haag, Pays-Bas

Gallery del Leone, Venise, Italie

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, France

1998   

Miami Exhibition of modern art, USA

Galerie Marion Meyer, Paris, France

Gallery del Leone, Venise, Italie

Musée de Florival, Guebwiller, France

Art International New York, Gallery del Leone, Italie

1997   

Exhibition of Chicago, Galerie Meyer-Bugel, Paris, France

Hôtel de la Monnaie, Paris, France

1996

Museum Annexe Gallery, Hong-Kong

Musée Pyrénéen Château Fort de Lourdes, France

Gallery del Leone, Venise, Italie

1995

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chambéry, France

Galerie Loft, Paris

1994

Galerie Guigné, Paris, France

Musée of Montbard, France

Galerie Découvertes, Galerie Loft, Paris

1992

Galerie Sabine Herbert, Paris, France

Galerie Martine Brasseur, Reims, France

1991

Galerie Sabine Herbert, Paris, France

Musée Despiau-Wlérick, Mont-de-Marsan, France

1990

Galerie de l'Assemblée Nationale, Paris, France

1989

Galerie Marie Laure Leduc, Paris, France

Mairie de Vervins, France