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ABOUT THE ARTIST



The Brazilian artist Aparecida Helena Annoni Garcia, known by her artistic name of Cida Garcia or C. Garcia, was born in Machado, in the south of the state of Minas Gerais.



She has exhibited her work in several European countries and has founded projects of an artistic and social nature in her native Brazil in order to help communities and people in need.



As a guest artist, C. Garcia is part of the important international project “Projeto Arte Solidária”, Art Solidarity, which is based in the Brazilian city of Florianopolis and involves a great number of people who are committed to building a better future. She has also taught in the workshop of the Moreira Salles Institute (IMS), a non-profit making organisation founded in 1990 that is dedicated to preserving and making known Brazilian culture through projects in the areas of photography, literature, cinema, music and visual arts.



In her home town of Machado, she is Artistic and Cultural Patrimony Advisor to the town, making her work part of its private collection as well as that of the Brazilian National Congress.





Memories...Strange memories.

I search my mind for answers that will show me when so many symbols were imprinted there....Like petrified fossils...Resisting time like the negatives we keep and, over time, showing themselves to me in new pictures.

I use and abuse them to show what I want as if colours, lines, shapes needed to be sealed in codes, small signs...Keys that will open the door and set understanding free.

As I pass through, I leave small clues, reduced possibilities as if I was marking a trail.

In them I see that I am avoiding the obvious, I am hiding, covering up, projecting.

Along the way, I find beings that discover, or re-discover such symbols, translating them in their own original ways.

What goals is my subconscious trying to achieve, leaving those fragments, looking for partnerships with those that find them, becoming accomplices with those that codify them?

My inner silence reigns as if it was the answer I too had to search for,who knows covered by a thick layer of paint, stuck in some shape that, at some point in my life, I deliberately decided to bury.





Cida Garcia’s painting is determined, sensual and chromatically impressive. Oscillating between unthinkable gestures and the need for occasional containment, it shows a modernity that mirrors the painter in the exact dimension of seeking strength. Its calligraphy is personal but, nevertheless, it still imposes itself in the context of great contemporary trends. The light and colour take us to an exalted tropicality that lacks neither poetry nor the will to affirm.

Edgardo Xavier – Art critic and Artist / Estoril - Portugal

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2008
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2008
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