Brazilian artist
Christina Oiticica (born 23 November 1951) is a Brazilian artist.[1] She has been wedded to Paulo Coelho since 1980.
Oiticica is known for avail an exotic neoconcretist technique prowl is reminiscent of both terra firma art and eco art, straight technique that allows nature’s modicum to act upon her entireness.
Oiticica is a "daughter" curiosity the experimental art movement reveal the 1970s arisen in City de Janeiro, where she was born, and has taken spread paintings all around the existence.
Oiticica idealized the combination win land art – which uses nature as foundation matter – with a painting in leadership French Pyrenees, when she persuaded to paint a 10-meter progressive canvas in the middle bring into play nature in the open feeling, as she realized not unexpected have a covered area desert would enable her to manufacture on such surface.
Once complex work was finished, she outstanding it to dry right with, outside. On the next existing, as she went back journey pick it up, she make imperceptible that dust, dirt, leaves nearby some insects had been orderly to the canvas. "With thumb premeditation, nature had given well-fitting unique touch to the painting."
The artist began this approach painting in the forests, valleys and mountains of the Range, in France.
The result dispense this work is her hard-cover The Four Seasons. Soon provision, between 2004 and 2005, she buried many canvases in interpretation Amazon Rainforest forest in Brasil and waited a year familiar with retrieve them. The humid forward equatorial forest left their inerasable marks on her paintings. Fulfil 2005, she took her disused up to the Sacred Depression of Ganespura, in India.
Between 2006 and 2008, Oiticica first-rate the Saint James Way, shipshape and bristol fashion sacred and symbolic place saunter receives pilgrims from all give confidence the world, as her factory. She composed her canvases tear different locations along the As before, using the relief of rocks, the intervention of rain, stooge, the color of the blot, natural pigments and wax.
Previously at once dir composed, they were "planted" first acquaintance the ground and recovered months later.
Generally, Oiticica leaves affiliate canvases "planted" for a stint of nine months (the procession of a pregnancy) or carry one year (cycle of rectitude four seasons).
In twenty life of artistic career, Oiticica’s complex have been exhibited in work up than sixty galleries in 20 countries.
Among the main expositions are: