A PLAY ON COLOUR M. F. Cornejo’s latest exhibition

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M.F. Cornejo’s work mainly refers to a theme deeply routed in Mediterranean painting; the sea. As the cradle of creation and cultures, it has been a constant feature in his work, in fact water and all that surrounds it, has been almost an obsession for the artist throughout his long career.
His intimate series of bathers, marine paintings, ponds, rivers and coastal landscapes are an ideal pretext for him to develop a personal world of vibrant colour and expressive brushwork.
In this new exhibition he carries this imaginative distortion and intense colouristic experimentation over to new subjects as well, using pools of colour to organise forms with undefined borders, and dealing with the space surrounding the form, to enter into positive-negative contrasts, where different values and textures mix. Important too are the multi dynamic surfaces that organise a superimposed spacial vision, creating a sensation of movement.
The artist’s work is an invitation to the senses that goes further than the purely palpable, visual and objective, and enters into a temporal universe, where it melds and superimposes space on time.

The exhibition can be seen on weekdays from December 18-January 4, between 11.30- 13.30 and from 18.30-20.30 in the Díaz-Oliva hall, Calle Vendeja 9, in Málaga city. The inauguration is on Tuesday, December 18 at 20.00.




Mariano Fernández Cornejo (M. F. Cornejo) was born in Melilla, North Africa in 1949 and has lived in Málaga, Spain, since 1977. He obtained a degree in Fine Arts, specialising in painting, from the University of Seville in 1977. During this time he was awarded a scholarship by the Santa Isabel de Hungria Faculty of Fine Arts for landscape studies at the Quintanar Palace, Segovia, Spain. He also graduated in Applied Arts.
Mariano currently combines his work as a teacher of drawing and colour at the San Telmo Art School in Málaga (where he has taught since 1977) with regular exhibitions of his work.
He has won a number of painting and drawing awards, the most recent in 2005 and held numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Spain. For more information please see his website www.mfcornejo.com.es