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Christina Oiticica
 
 
About the Artist

My work is affected, inevitably, by having been in close contact with nature.

My work is the opposite of man’s course, leaving home, the cave and returning to nature; a pilgrim’s work.

Humans deal with space. We can move around, we are free in space. Plants deal with time, and have a far greater existence. Plants are free in time. They are capable of interrupting the seed’s germination, which is in fact an interrupted pregnancy, in order to germinate at a favourable time.

When I leave my work in the fields, forests and dry riverbeds, it not only captures the physical, spatial element, but also the energetic element. When it is in nature, it begins to identify with it, and to react to this body.

The intention in my work is to go beyond the four walls protecting it, to use space and go beyond. Go beyond the four walls and be affected by the conditions of time, by circumstances, as Ortega y Gasset puts it.


 
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Gaïa's Portal

2004 - 2005
71 x 56

I left this painting - a reinterpretation of the birth of Venus- a year inside a tree trunk in the Amazonian Jungle.

Bêtania n° 3- front

2004 - 2005
50 x 36,5

I buried a series of paintings at the catholic community of Betânia. When I retrieved them, a year later, I noticed that the interference of Nature was very strong. That's why, when I expose them I like showing the front and the back of the painting.

Bêtania n°3 - back

2004 - 2005
50 x 36,5

This is the back of the previous painting. I was seduced by the arabesque of roots and colour.

Katukina Heart - front

2004 - 2005
80 x 65

I left two canvases in the land of the Katukina indians. When I found them, I felt as if the energy of this place wanted to consume completely the works.

Immaculate Conception Heart

2004 - 2005
Mixed technique
80 x 65 cm

The feminine face of God, buried for a year in Amazonia.
 
Education and biography
Art School of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.

Bennet School of Architecture - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil.

Art Circle of Madrid - Spain.

Exhibitions

2005
• Luis Vuitton – São Paulo – Brazil (Solo exhibition)
• Luis Vuitton – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil (Solo exhibition)
• CROUS Gallery– Paris – France (Solo exhibition)
• Maison des Écritures – Lyon – France (Solo exhibition)

2004
• France-Brazil Cultural Centre – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil (Solo exhibition)
• Candido Portinari Gallery– Rome – Italy (Solo exhibition)
• 4th Exhibition of Photography – Liège Biennale - Belgium

2003
• Mestnua Gallery– Ljubljana – Slovenia (Solo exhibition)
• Unesco Palace – International Art Exhibition – Beirut - Lebanon
• France Brazil Cultural Centre / Virtual Exhibition– Rio de Janeiro - Brazil (Solo exhibition)
• Montrouge’s 48th Salon of Contemporary Art– France


2002
• Lafayette Galleries – Paris - France
• De Melkeerij – Beisem – Belgium
• National Fine Art Museum - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil (Solo Exhibition)
• Oscar Wilde’s House - Dublin – Ireland (Solo Exhibition)

2001
• Debret Gallery - Paris – France (Solo Exhibition)
• La Petite Galerie - Brussels – Belgium (Solo Exhibition)
• Artexpo - Jacob Javits Convention Center - Nova York - USA
• Guarulhos Airport - São Paulo – Brazil (Solo Exhibition)

2000
• La Maison Du Temps French- Brazilian Cultural Centre – Paris - France (Solo Exhibition)
• Poste Gallery - Niterói, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• National Historic Museum - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil (Solo Exhibition)
 
Future shows
May 2007
The Pilgrim's Path/Exhibitions
El Peregrino
Puente la Reina - Navarra
España
 
Website:  www.christinaoiticica.com.br/
 
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