Exhibitions
- 2008: The Pilgrim Path - Leon
- 2007: The Pilgrim Path
- 2006: Inf'action
- 2005: Paths Revived
- 2004: The
Four Seasons
- 2003: Virtual
Exhibit - Signals
- 2003: 48th Salon
Montrouge, Montrouge / France, November 2003
- 2003/2002:
Paths Revived : Época Art Gallery, Goiânia May 2003 / National Museum
of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, October 2002
- 2001:
Galerie Lafayette
- 2001: Parcours, Récoltes
- 2000: La Maison Du Temps
- 1999: Threading Beads and Stringing Pearls
- 1998: The Circle and the Dot, The Dot
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Parcours,
Récoltes
Espaço Multimodal da Embaixada
do Brasil - Berlim 11/2001
Galerie Debret - Paris 11/2001
La Petite
Galerie - Bruxelas 10/2001 
Endless cards collected over 10 years of countless comings and goings. Hotel keys,
phone cards, visiting cards, boarding passes, credit cards, a series of small
rectangles of paper or plastic, carrying within them a memory, a challenge, a
town. Times lived, paths crossed. Touches, sounds, voices, divided emotions,
sweet longing. The name was given: "Passed, Gathered" (Parcous Récoltes). The
cards bring with them several images: of flowers, towns, landscapes, birds...
however one fascinated me particularly: in Germany, as she dialed someone's number,
the phone card showed a mysterious mouth, with a smile of irony or complicity.
Based on this card, I was able to re-read that very moment in my life.
Christina Oititica
Delirium in red
She is Brazilian, which should come as a surprise to no-one, seeing the colors
she prefers.
The artist’s work, for the first time on show in Brussels,
is a veritable Rio de Janeiro Carnival made of delirious images, extravagant birds,
crazy flowers, bewitched rhythms, excesses, all worthy of the most impassioned
Cariocas!
When we are told she is the wife of “alchemist” novelist
Paulo Coelho, then we understand the ardor of the lady. “Christina does not
show just a painting” – explains her writer husband – “she
shows a piece of each of our lives using her colors and her soul.”
She
created her current artistic path - other paths have come before this one –
based on magnetic cards. Credit cards, telephone cards, boarding tickets gathered
over time and circumstances. She used and multiplied them in a scenario scripted
by her visions. Credulous to an almost mystic degree, she offers us an eruption
– an eternal symphony - of red mouths and hearts.
Her works – both
oil on canvas and mixed techniques on cushions and objects – have titles
like “Rainfalls of Roses”, “Heart of Color”, “Jasper
with Chrome Chain and Pearls”, “Heart of Quartz with Wires” ...
that is enough, no more examples are needed!
Although the themes are similar,
each object is different.
Texts in all languages from Chinese to Persian, Spanish
to Portuguese, decorate the paintings. Sometimes they are illustrated with texts
by Paulo Coelho, interspersed with small gold-thread hearts decorated with tulle
and lace. At other times an electronic chip repeats its silent message.
Since
1980, Christina Oiticica has exhibited little in Europe and a great deal in South
America, where her overflowing sensibility surely adapts better to the spirit
of the place, which would not happen on this old Continent turned dull from spending
so much time contemplating its own navel. Her work smells of passion, folly, a
storm of feelings ... there is a certain undeniable touch of poetry to this pseudo-metaphysical
abundance whose lack of nuance is offset by conferring a fascinating symbolic
reality on the color red.
La Petite Galérie – 1, rue de Livourne
(Place Stéphanie). Until October 28, Wednesday to Saturday 2:30-6:30 p.m.,
Sunday 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
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