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Garc\u00eda <\/STRONG>Cordero Exhibits His Work in Miami<\/STRONG><\/P> Dominican Artist Jos\u00e9 Garc\u00eda Cordero, born in Santiago de los Caballeros in 1951 and a resident of Paris since 1977, is presenting his work in a one-man show in at the Gallery Walk in Miami\u2019s Wynwood Art District until January 30. The name of his show is \u201cFull Optimist.\u201d The exhibition is being celebrated in parallel with the International Contemporary Art Fair, “Art Basel Miami Beach 2007”.<\/P> “Full Optimist” is a collection of unedited paintings, curated by \u201cLorproject\u201d which forms part of one of the artist\u2019s recent and most insightful periods. The viewer confronts, once again, the artist\u2019s fascinating world of painting with his characteristic, ironic language. The work is full of black humor as seen from a sinister threshold with shades of optimistic views of existence, according to a press communiqu\u00e9. <\/P> Some of the pieces in the show are included in the artist\u2019s new book \u201cThe Divine Me\u201d which contains more than 90 photos from the past 25 years of his uninterrupted work. According to art critic Laura Gil, \u201cGarc\u00eda Cordero has had stroke of genius in the way he\u2019s done his self-portrait not only as an exercise but a portrait that is overwhelmingly lucid and introspective. He\u2019s done a portrait of his times by exposing the generational roots and motives of validation that verge on the universal. In doing so, he has absorbed modern cultural traditions such as Sartre\u2019s existentialism and other Europeans like Nietzsche. In addition, he expresses, with brilliance and energy, the anomaly of hybrid and post-colonial cultures found in the post-modern world but yet he himself does not give in totally to modernism.<\/P> \u201cBut his greatest genius has been to recognize and express the fragile essence of that which is wild and fierce. There is no worse violence that of an injured or persecuted animal,\u201d continued Gil. \u201cThe violence all around us that threatens us, inside and outside our own soul, is the violence of fear.\u201d
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