” It’s not easy these days to chance upon artists whore main distant from the media furore with all its’ problems and cattines, but instead dedicate their time to their work in a dimension where communication is not provocation but intimicy. Where the result is the fruit of years of effort and elaboration. Maddalena Korda is not a typical artist, through experiences against certain tendencies, she is an advocate of elegant art, sober and measured, in which in the manner of her illustrious predecessors, we find an attention to detail not only technical but which also has something of the incredible. Attention to movement, portrait and sentiment, Maddalena Kordaachieves her etchings using a difficult and time-consuming technique, after a long journey of pictorial experimentation on ceramics. Maddalena Korda has metabolised the lessons of the grand etchers from Goia to Durer. Inevitable echoes of the refined predecessors are to be found through the etchings of this hermetic yet talented Cagliaritana artist, who loves to realise works of significant depths, returning to the metaphor, the unsaid, to that silence full of reflections which has always been attributed to the Sardinian populus. Maddalena Korda has very deep roots in this culture, she re-tells her stories through imagery in equal measure, delicate and incisive, like a treasure to divide with those who observe, she brings them to life in a very composed yet never invasive manner. A path which takes shape by itself from the observation of reality filtered from the artist and realised to express all senses of the journey. The actual reality is analised in every aspect, the expressions of the faces, the wild nature, the prepective of our island all becomes interpreted and transformed into substance. From that substance, from the finished piece, the artisan expertise of Maddalena Korda returns to the concept. It’s impossible not to be fascinated by the elegant and discreet strength of the fixed movements on a difficult material to work with but with great feeling and effort she is able to restore all the grace and beauty of the original subject. A silent art, precious with a spiritual component, tense with the synergy of the world and a williongness to share it. This is the journey Maddalena Korda offers to her audience, with her etchings conscious of her responsability to contiune down the road of the great masters before her, humble in her following of this path, the traditions, rendering her work dynamic and current through the study and magic of creation.”
Giacomo Pisano