Miguel Ángel Cordera

Within the framework of the Manía exhibition by Miguel Ángel Cordera El Palmar gallery, in collaboration with Ángeles Bernal, has prepared a public program regarding the themes of the exhibition.

Starting with Creative Processes of Manía, which consists of a public dialogue between the artist Miguel Ángel Cordera and the art critic Eduardo Egea.

Attendees will be able to learn about the creative and personal processes that triggered the exhibition's pictorial series, which consists of nine paintings that trace Cordera's experience in his first encounter with a neuroatypical diagnosis, which after 22 years sees the light of day in our facilities.

Miguel Ángel Cordera is a visual artist with studies at the Universidad Iberoamericana, the National School of Plastic Arts and residencies at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has a career of more than 30 years doing projects in different countries such as France, Germany, Spain, the United States, Portugal, Canada and Egypt, among others. He has more than 10 individual and multiple group exhibitions. He is the founder of the Edison 137 space where he has participated with other artists for the promotion and dissemination of contemporary art. Cordera works with painting from the observation of the environment and its consequent appropriation and abstraction. He largely starts from the urban landscape and nature to transform it into compositions where the chromatic choice contrasts the accident with the direct and precise mark.

Eduardo Egea is a researcher, contemporary art critic and journalist from Mexico City where he studied Visual Arts (1990-93) at the National School of Plastic Arts, ENAP, at UNAM. Between 2012 and 2013 he was associate editor of the magazine Arte al Día México; From 2011 to 2014 he was a correspondent in Mexico for the magazine Flash Art International, Milan, and has collaborated in the North American magazine Art News, 2015. For more than twenty years he has written more than six hundred essays and weekly columns Artgenetic, the latter published since 2011 in the national newspaper, La Crónica de Hoy. All of his writings are based on his discourse where the production of aesthetic and formal knowledge in the Mexican post-periphery contributes to subverting the global dominance of first world art. He is the author of the essay Theft at Home. Stealing the Idea of Western Art, 2003-05. He is currently preparing the book, The Endless Death of Contemporary Art. Between June and September 2023, he curated the dual exhibition I Am Not Your Mexican for the Ruiz-Healy Art Gallery in its spaces in New York and San Antonio, Texas, a show that included historical work by Mathias Goeritz, Teresa Serrano and Hersúa, among others. Eduardo Egea has participated in multiple conferences and book presentations at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Zona Maco, the José María Velasco Gallery, etc. and represents the artistic legacy of Nuria Egea (1958-2016), who as of September 21, 2023 exhibits for the first time in the group exhibition, Punta de Flama. Apology of the Symbol and Vindications of Art curated by Guillermo Santamarina for the Mexican Art Gallery, GAM.

Image: Miguel Ángel Cordera, Frontal encounter with my external part 2001, Mixed on macocel 120x120 cm.

— El Palmar