Born in 1960 in Lourdes, Mauro Corda was born into an Italian stone-cutting family. His apprenticeship in Reims was thanks to sculptors Charles Auffret and Jean Cardot. It continues with a stay at Villa Vélasquez in Madrid. After winning this prestigious sculpture award, Mauro Corda began exhibiting in Parisian galleries. From 1994, several French museums show his work. International recognition followed with exhibitions in Hong Kong, Chicago, Venice and Bologna.
Mauro Corda is a sculptor of the body. His figurative and monumental sculptures question the notion of identity and the human body in its borderline states. He uses a wide variety of materials such as bronze, aluminum, iron, stainless steel, steel, glass to realize his life-size works, universal, and free of all community leanings. The human body is exposed without concession. All the sculptor’s art lies in surface work, from the fleshly vibration to the coldness of the mechanical material. It is the art of modeling that masters its relationship with light, gives life to sculpture.