Foto Uwe Walter
Ateliê da artista em Berlim, 2024
Exhibition
Giving Form to the World
Aug 15 to Nov 17
R. Cosme Velho, 1105
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Exhibition
Giving Form to the World
Aug 15 to Nov 17
R. Cosme Velho, 1105
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Foto Uwe Walter
Ateliê da artista em Berlim, 2024
Cristina Canale and the Landscapes of the World
Even while her painting continuously explores new paths, evident beauty is a feature found throughout the entirety of Cristina Canale’s artistic career. A sensitive viewer, even one without the slightest knowledge of the craft, will be captivated by the material, transparency, opacity, colors, shapes, and, above all, lights that “ignite” her canvases, constantly enthralling the gaze. Other viewers, while not overlooking this charm, will playfully follow the multiple dialogues between painters and tendencies that her works unveil and evoke. Art history, everyday images, distancing, and visceral immersion — they are all present here.
Her work’s celebration of painting coupled with its sophisticated internal reasoning makes it irreducible to any textual intellectualism. The artist begins with her broad international repertoire and filters this through her freedom — so typical of the best Brazilian art — mixing trends that sometimes seem fundamentally irreconcilable, establishing unforeseen bridges and connections between diverse visual languages.
Two years ago, in an exhibition that brought together the perspectives of various artists on the Roberto Marinho Collection, Canale established a dialogue concerning the pictorial options taken by Di Cavalcanti when painting Ivette, a painting from 1963. She was interested not only in retracing the path of the modern artist’s brushes but, above all, in providing pictorial alternatives and paths that the painter could have taken at each supposed stage. This exercise, carried out by way of multiple drawings, resulted in a final silkscreen print and painting, while it also constituted an ingenious conversation by a woman painter who elevates the feminine from the mere condition of a model to assume a partnership role in the work.
This exhibition in 2024 at Casa Roberto Marinho presents Cristina Canale as a curator on the ground floor and Cristina Canale as a painter on the first upper floor. As we walk through the settings on the two floors, we will see how fluidly these two roles are intertwined in the landscapes of the world created by this Rio de Janeiro artist.
Lauro Cavalcanti
Executive Director
Casa Roberto Marinho
Cristina Canale
Mix, 2014
acrylic and oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm
Coleção Particular
Cristina Canale
Sacolinha, 2017
acrylic, oil and graphite on canvas, 100 x 90 cm
Coleção Particular
Cristina Canale
Flor estranha, 2014
acrylic and oil on canvas, 100 x 105 cm
Coleção Particular
Cristina Canale
Goodbye lógica, 2012
acrylic and oil on canvas, 155 x 180 cm
Coleção Juliana Cintra
Cristina Canale
Ondas, 2024
oil and acrylic spray on linen, 110 x 100 cm
Coleção da artista
Cristina Canale
A casa e os sonhos, 2021
acrylic, oil, and fabric collage on linen, 170 x 190 cm
Cortesia da artista e Nara Roesler
Cristina Canale
Platane, 1995
acrylic and oil on canvas, 175 x 200 cm
Coleção Marcos Lisboa
Cristina Canale
Rio 40 graus, 1987
oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm
Cortesia Almeida & Dale Galeria de Arte
Cristina Canale
Vizinhas, 2011
acrylic and oil on canvas, 180 x 200 cm
Coleção Particular
Cristina Canale
Fruto Proibido, 1999
acrylic and oil on canvas, 140 x 165 cm
Coleção José Luiz Sá de Castro Lima
Cristina Canale
Sem título, 1991
oil on canvas, 240 x 315 cm
Acervo da Pinacoteca de São Paulo. Compra do Governo do Estado de São Paulo, 1993
Cristina Canale
Branco de medo, 1992
acrylic, oil, spray and synthe&c enamel on canvas, 210 x 240 cm
Cortesia da artista e Nara Roesler
Cristina Canale
Ella, 2018
acrylic, oil, and oil stick on canvas, 170 x 180 cm
Coleção Particular
Cristina Canale
Paixão, 2023
acrylic, oil, acrylic paste, and fabric collage on linen, 110 x 100 cm
Coleção Particular
Cristina Canale
Bossa nova, 2024
acrylic, oil, and fabric collage on linen, 100 x 80 cm
Coleção da artista
Cristina Canale
Poltrona anos 60, 1999
acrylic and oil on canvas, 140 x 160 cm
Coleção Sílvia Velludo e Marcelo Guarnieri
Cristina Canale
Esquinas, 2016
acrylic and oil on canvas, 175 x 200 cm
Coleção Particular
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - AUG 15 TO NOV 17 2024
Trusteeship: Cristina Canale
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - AUG 15 TO NOV 17 2024
Trusteeship: Pollyana Quintella
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - MAY 11 TO JUL 21 2024
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti, Marcia Mello e Victor Burton
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - AUG 25 TO NOV 12 2023
Trusteeship: Paulo Venancio Filho
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - APR 28 TO JUL 16 2023
Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - APR 28 TO JUL 16 2023
Trusteeship: Alexandre Dacosta
Casa Roberto Marinho
Rio de Janeiro - APR 28 TO JUL 16 2023
Trusteeship: João Emanuel Carneiro
