Corno (1952 - 2016)

Portrait on blue

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  • Gallery

    Espace 1130 - Cosner Gallery | Art dealers

  • Medium

    Acrylic on canvas

  • Time

    Contemporary

  • Dimensions

    213 x 152,4 cm | 84'' x 60''

  • Dimensions with frame

    no frame

  • Signed

    Signed lower right

Corno’s canvases are bursts of passion, strength, and sensuality. They breathe with raw energy and the excess of life. The faces she paints, often feminine, emerge from the canvas with an almost incandescent intensity: vibrant lips, burning gazes, gestures captured in a single breath.

In Corno’s work, color is never a mere ornament; it is matter and emotion. Deep reds, dense blacks, flashes of light become the extension of both flesh and soul. Her brushstrokes, broad and gestural, translate rhythm, urgency, and vitality, as though the very movement of the body were transposed into paint.

What strikes the eye is the tension between abstraction and figuration. An eye, a mouth, the contour of a face arise from sweeping flows of pigment, as if the figure were forming before us—still incandescent, still alive. Here, a dazzling modernity emerges, a pictorial language that bridges the force of expressionism with the elegance of contemporary pop.

Corno does not paint portraits; she paints inner energy, the intensity of a fleeting instant, the magnetic power of desire and beauty. Her works captivate, provoke, and seduce. They invite the viewer into a dance between excess and grace, between instinctive gesture and pictorial sophistication.

 

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