Isabelle Cornaro
Born in 1974 in Paris where she lives and works.
Isabelle Cornaro’s work draws on the legacy of conceptual art, which has left its stamp on her interest in systems of organization and structure, as well as the special sensibility found in her emotional connection with objects. Seemingly abstract, her compositions are based on the structural analysis of photographs, urban development plans or preexisting landscape paintings, which the artist deconstructs to create new modes for reading and perceiving them. Her minimal compositions are lent an emotional resonance through the presence of jewelry from the artist’s family or locks of hair, which look like fetishistic emblems. Worked into an abstract system, they become graphic signs that are invested with new meaning. This gives rise to two aesthetic forms, geometric and minimalist, on the one hand, and expressionist, on the other.