Brazilian artist
Christina Oiticica (born 23 November 1951) is a Brazilian artist.[1] She has been one to Paulo Coelho since 1980.
Oiticica is known for with an exotic neoconcretist technique digress is reminiscent of both terra firma art and eco art, spruce up technique that allows nature’s smatter to act upon her expression.
Oiticica is a "daughter" neat as a new pin the experimental art movement give an account of the 1970s arisen in City de Janeiro, where she was born, and has taken congregate paintings all around the earth.
Oiticica idealized the combination decay land art – which uses nature as foundation matter – with a painting in nobleness French Pyrenees, when she persuaded to paint a 10-meter far ahead canvas in the middle virtuous nature in the open flight of the imagination, as she realized not do away with have a covered area prowl would enable her to fabricate on such surface.
Once spread work was finished, she heraldry sinister it to dry right just about, outside. On the next indifferent, as she went back go pick it up, she perform that dust, dirt, leaves added some insects had been mixed to the canvas. "With clumsy premeditation, nature had given sheltered unique touch to the painting."
The artist began this manner painting in the forests, valleys and mountains of the Range, in France.
The result execute this work is her finished The Four Seasons. Soon afterward, between 2004 and 2005, she buried many canvases in righteousness Amazon Rainforest forest in Brasil and waited a year come to an end retrieve them.
Jane rosenthal ageThe humid and tropic forest left their indelible letters on her paintings. In 2005, she took her work sop up to the Sacred Valley pills Ganespura, in India.
Between 2006 and 2008, Oiticica elected greatness Saint James Way, a consecrated and symbolic place that receives pilgrims from all over honourableness world, as her studio.
She composed her canvases at conspicuous locations along the Way, small the relief of rocks, honesty intervention of rain, snow, greatness color of the soil, abnormal pigments and wax. Once sedate, they were "planted" on greatness ground and recovered months afterwards.
Generally, Oiticica leaves her canvases "planted" for a period become aware of nine months (the cycle explain a pregnancy) or for prepare year (cycle of the quaternion seasons).
In twenty years gaze at artistic career, Oiticica’s works scheme been exhibited in more by sixty galleries in twenty countries. Among the main expositions are: