"You've got to turn yourself on. If you're not turned on by what you're doing, there's no point."
- Corno (Zinc Magazine; 2008)
I was paging through my Spring/Summer issue of Zinc and came across a feature on the work of Quebec born artist, Joanne Corno. Electric colors and erotic contours are shouting at me... and I like it. And so I am instantly reminded as to why the page has been folded and bookmarked with three sticky tabs and a plastic bread bag. (?)
Corno's work is a celebration of human form, movement and the intimacy of emotion. Each one of her life size canvas' hold an incredible sense of energy, unveiling a raw and sporadic state of being. She seems to capture the glorious rush of instant gratification-- that intoxicating charge of pleasure that holds one particular moment.
Many of us spend our entire lives hashing and rehashing a route to the infinite plane of pleasure. In a self-help book infected world, we've got prepackaged formulas for a million feel-good mantras. Corno bypasses the premeditated jargon, strips us of all accessories and delivers the flood of emotion in its truest form.
ooo - pretty pictures! You should post some of your own pictures - I bet they're lovely!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Indy