Mário Pires Cordeiro
Mário Pires Cordeiro is an American-Portuguese artist and mentor. He was born in Lisbon and lived in London for ten years before moving to California in 2015. He received his MFA at Chelsea College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts, London and completed three years of a PhD researching color trends in fine arts. He has been commissioned by the Olympic and Paralympic Games Committee in 2012 and the Cape Farewell Foundation in 2013. He has exhibited in over forty solo and group exhibitions. Since 2016 he has been the Curator Auction Manager, The Crucible Soiree Art Auction, and he has been teaching at the Crucible since 2018. Recently he was a finalist for National Parks Arts Foundation - Hawaii Volcanoes Artist Residency, and is currently a Facility Artist of the 1240 Minnesota Street Project.
Pires Cordeiro’s art develops the relationship between fine art and design, commenting on the interaction between visual art and functional objects through experimentation in media and color. Color is his main focus, unpacking the symbolic and cultural meanings imposed on it in contemporary society by sourcing colors from trends and design forecasts as well as from particular environments or publications. He finds inspiration in modern architecture, engineering, and geometry, distilling extremely intricate concepts into distinct shapes. He works with a variety of media from painting and sculpting to film and 3D printing.
SF NO. 17
SF NO. 52, KALEIDOSCOPE
SF NO. 48, AMPLIFICATION
SF NO. 4, STAMP
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