Exhibition

Cristina Canale

Giving Form to the World

Aug 15 to Nov 17

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday,
from 12 AM to 6 PM
*Admission until 5:15 PM

R. Cosme Velho, 1105
Rio de Janeiro, RJ

Exhibition

Cristina Canale

Giving Form to the World

Aug 15 to Nov 17

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday,
from 12 AM to 6 PM
*Admission until 5:15 PM

R. Cosme Velho, 1105
Rio de Janeiro, RJ

Foto Uwe Walter
Ateliê da artista em Berlim, 2024

Ateliê da artista em Berlim

Giving Form to the World

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

Obras expostas

Exhibition

Landscape and Memory

An Overview of the Roberto Marinho Collection

Aug 15 to Nov 17

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday,
from 12 AM to 6 PM
*Admission until 5:15 PM

R. Cosme Velho, 1105
Rio de Janeiro, RJ

Visit the exhibition

Exhibition

Landscape and Memory

An Overview of the Roberto Marinho Collection

Aug 15 to Nov 17

Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday,
from 12 AM to 6 PM
*Admission until 5:15 PM

R. Cosme Velho, 1105
Rio de Janeiro, RJ

Visit the exhibition

Previous exhibitions

Rio: Desire of a City

Rio: Desire of a City

Casa Roberto Marinho

Rio de Janeiro - MAY 11 TO JUL 21 2024

Conversations Between Collections

Conversations Between Collections

Casa Roberto Marinho

Rio de Janeiro - DEC 15 TO MAR 24 2024

Angelo Venosa, sculptor

Angelo Venosa, sculptor

Casa Roberto Marinho

Rio de Janeiro - AUG 25 TO NOV 12 2023

Trusteeship: Paulo Venancio Filho

Collection in its Time

Collection in its Time

Casa Roberto Marinho

Rio de Janeiro - APR 28 TO JUL 16 2023

Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti

Maria Leontina

Maria Leontina

Casa Roberto Marinho

Rio de Janeiro - APR 28 TO JUL 16 2023

Trusteeship: Alexandre Dacosta

Lélia Coelho Frota

Lélia Coelho Frota

Casa Roberto Marinho

Rio de Janeiro - APR 28 TO JUL 16 2023

Trusteeship: João Emanuel Carneiro

There's a Whole Lot of Joy Here

There's a Whole Lot of Joy Here

Casa Roberto Marinho

Rio de Janeiro - DEC 11 TO APR 02 2023

Trusteeship: Lauro Cavalcanti

Calder + Miró

Calder + Miró

Casa Roberto Marinho

Rio de Janeiro - AUG 19 TO NOV 20 2022

Trusteeship: Max Perlingeiro