Sandra Cinto (Santo André SP 1968)
Sandra Cinto is a sculptor, designer, painter, record label and teacher. He graduated in Arts Education at Faculdades Integradas Teresa D'Ávila - Fatea, in Santo André, in 1990. MAC/USP. In 2002, he created the trophy for the Estadão Multicultural Award, held in São Paulo.
Critical Comment
Sandra Cinto begins her trajectory in the 1990s, performing representations of skies and clouds, contained in boxes and cabinets, as in an altarpiece (1995). For the criticism Lisette Lagnado, the artist creates fantastic images, which have an affinity with the work of the Belgian painter René Magritte (1898-1967). In his drawings, which stand out above all for expanding to supports combined in an unpredictable way, stairs, bridges, abysses, chandeliers, lit candles and trees without leaves and fruits are frequent. In them, she reveals admiration for the work of Leonilson (1957-1993).
Sandra Cinto often appropriates photographs, sometimes her childhood or current portraits, which are associated with other objects, such as wooden sculptures that Simulate books or beds. As the art historian Tadeu Chiarelli notes, all these supports or elements form a meeting point and the dissemination of infinite narratives, never completed, and commonly configured as solutions designed for specific spaces. The artist brings to her production the disruption of certain formalist concepts, especially the one focused on the search for the specificities of languages, combining in her work different procedures, such as drawing, sculpture and photography. As Chiarelli also points out, in his production there are works in which dream and reality seem to coexist in silent and contradictory harmony.
Criticism
"When emerging in the São Paulo artistic scene, in the collectives of young artists performed by Sonia Salzstein At the São Paulo Cultural Center, Sandra Cinto surprised, while still in full force of the materic, brutal and chaotic painting, inherited from the 1980s, Sandra presented paintings with clouds of colonial blue candids, made with very light layers of paint. Ingenuity or boldness did the paintings also show an admiration for Magritte, returning to surrealism in the 1990s? Displayed by her on the same occasion, objects in the form of models demonstrated the efficient use of contemporary languages, denoting information and expressive power. Pure boldness, therefore.
These objects, made from two small environments connected by a door, signaled the same poetics as the canvas: while the clouds, painted like unveiled tunnels, pointed the path of transcendence, the model door was a metaphor From the passage to infinity, path between a floor of pigments and the immaterial signaled by the smell of camphor or ether. Afterwards, Sandra began to paint the clouds red, turning the key to reading her work to the perception of the body, viscera and blood. 'Who was born from the mid-1960s onwards is the post-AIDS generation and that weighs heavily', says the artist. 'Most of us began to have a sexual life with this threat, pleasure and seduction that do not go all the way through panic; We have truncated freedom.´ The artistic affiliations are several, articulated in a harmonious way to solidify a personal path. One of the most evident nowadays lies in its construction of plans, which refers to the delicate landscapes of Guignard - 'The most difficult thing is to do the simple and that's what I admire most about it', reveals". Angélica de Moraes, Sandra Cinto creates art with the pain of the world. The State of S. Paulo, s.d.
"Sandra Cinto erupted in the contemporary landscape with an anachronistic representation of the celestial space, serene colors and nocturnal atmospheres. At first it seemed to claim a place for a complacent painting of the world. But the enormous meekness of the paintings, paradoxically to their humble character, was imposed as an unavoidable force. Gradually, the tone was declining from the blues and grays, and the untimely blushing of the clouds could well allude to the waves of a raging ocean, an index of fear in the face of the incommensurability of nature - a topic discussed most recently in its installation for the chapel of the Morumbi, transformed into a large allegorical vessel equipped with white candles with an upside down.1 With this deviation, the artist gains complexity by suggesting that the unlimited space is not only outside the subject. Sandra Cinto directs her gaze to the metaphor of the inner sky of remission, giving her the body that she lacked in the two-dimensional plane. Then, in a presumed reflux, the skies begin to fit inside small boxes (unlocked), cabinets (opened) or new and clear wood altarpieces - all furniture that evokes (blocked) roads from one dimension to another, access only possible at Fantastic imagination. The artist will resort to the dreamlike style of Magritte, no longer to extract her poetic riddles, but in search of the symbolic value of the image: the cage, lamps lit in broad daylight, a strawberry or an apple in the firmament of the history of art. The sensual (and feminine) configuration of the fruit - exuberant and disproportionate - shines such a 'astro' in the center of its skies. Consistent with the vocabulary of the sublime, Sandra Cinto assimilates the light in her sculptures.2 From that moment on, the work would lead to a freer investigation. A carved with a fine and careful line draws forests populated with long lines, stairs, trunks, tears, clouds, seagulls, chandeliers and lit candles. The ethereal, which emanated from the thin and blurred matter of the metaphysical heavens, takes on a palpable aspect with the incrustation, at the height of the abdomen of the wall, of a flute modified and molten in bronze, at the same time affirmative and 'sweet' (in the literal and figurative sense).3 The cult of suspended forms has, right angle, the tension necessary to face the almost dissolution of the lines".
Notes
1. São Paulo, 1997.
2. The installation consisted of three elements: a small wooden box with painted sky, a human-scale cage and a lit chandelier hanging from the ceiling and supported on the floor Antarctica Arts with Leaf, curated by Lisette Lagnado, Lorenzo Mammi, Nelson Brissac, Stella Teixeira de Barros and Tadeu Jungle. Pavilion Manoel da Nóbrega, São Paulo, 1996.
3. Collective "Intervalos", curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, 1997.
Lisette Lagnado
CINTO, Sandra Sandra Cinto. São Paulo : Casa Triângulo, 1998. p.5-6.
Individual exhibitions
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at Funarte. Macunaíma Gallery
1992 - São Paulo SP - Individual, annual exhibition program of the Centro Cultural São Paulo, at Fundação Bienal
1992 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at CCSP
1993 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Casa Triangle
1994 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Casa Triângulo
1997 - São Paulo SP - Individual, in the Chapel of Morumbi
1998 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Casa Triângulo
1999 - New York (United States) - Individual, at Bonakdar Jancou Gallery
2001 - New York (United States) - Individual, at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
2001 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at Casa Triangle
2001 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at CCSP
2003 - Belo Horizonte MG - Individual, at MAP
2003 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at MAM/SP
2005 - São Paulo SP - The portrait as an image of the world, at MAM/SP
Collective exhibitions
1988 - São Paulo SP - 4th University Salon of Plastic Arts, at Faculdade Santa Marcelina - Honorable Mention
1989 - São Paulo SP - Collective, at MAM/SP - 1st Canson Paper Art Award
1991 - Belo Horizonte MG - 23rd National Salon of Contemporary Art, at MAP
1991 - Campinas SP - Collective, at MACC
1991 - São Paulo SP - 23rd National Salon of Art with Paper, at MAM/SP
1992 - Piracicaba SP - 24th Contemporary Art Salon: Installations, at Engenho Central
1992 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Macunaíma Project, at Funarte. Arts Center
1992 - São Paulo SP - Annual Program for Plastic Arts Exhibition, at CCSP
1993 - Santo André SP - Reason and Mystery, at the Municipal Palace of Santo André
1993 - São Paulo SP - 2 x 365 = 4, at Fundação Mokiti Okada
1993 - São Paulo SP - Painting Group, at Espaço Namour
1993 - São Paulo SP - Cristina Agostinho & Sandra Cinto, at Casa Triângulo Gallery
1994 - Santo André SP - Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Santo André - Acquisition Award
1994 - São Paulo SP - Collection 94, at Casa Triângulo Gallery
1994 - São Paulo SP - non-virtual image, At Galeria Casa Triângulo
1995 - São Bernardo do Campo SP - Contemporary Art Salon of São Bernardo do Campo, at Espaço Henfil, Acquisition Award
1995 - São Paulo SP - Tomorrow, today, at FAAP Cultural Hall
1996 - São Paulo SP - Artist's Gold, at Casa Triângulo
1996 - São Paulo SP - Antarctica Artes Project with Folha, at the Manoel da Nóbrega Pavilion
1997 - Belém PA - seven emerging artists, at the gallery Theodoro Braga
1997 - Curitiba PR - The Contemporary Art of Engraving, at MUMA
1997 - Florianópolis SC - Contemporary Art Salon Victor Meirelles, at MASC - Acquisition Award
1997 - Madrid (Spain) - Arco 97
1997 - Santos SP - 10th Santos Bienal, at the Patrícia Galvão Cultural Center
1997 - São Paulo SP - Collective of sculptures, at the Casa Triângulo Gallery
1997 - São Paulo SP - Out of registration, at MAB/FAAP
1997 - São Paulo SP - Intervals, at Paço das Artes
1997 - São Paulo SP - Commemorative exhibition of nine years of the Casa Triângulo gallery
1997 - Salvador BA - 4th Salão da Bahia, at MAM/BA
1998 - Curitiba PR - Collective, at the Curitiba City Memorial
1998 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Albano Afonso, Rosana Monnerat and Sandra Cinto, at the Espaço Cultural dos Correios
1998 - São Paulo SP - 24th São Paulo International Biennial, at Fundação Bienal
1998 - São Paulo SP - The line, at Casa Galeria Triângulo
1998 - São Paulo SP - Fronteiras, at Itaú Cultural
1999 - Boston (United States) - Contemporary Collect Collectors: 1900-1999, at The Institute of Contemporary Art
1999 - Curitiba PR - Inventory of the Gift, at Galeria Casa da Imagem
1999 - Madrid (Spain) - Arco 99, at Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I
1999 - Porto Alegre RS - 2nd Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, in the Mercosur Biennial Visual Arts Foundation
1999 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Extra Large Extra-Small, at the Correios Cultural Space
1999 - San Diego (United States) - Contemporary Collectors, at the Museum of Contemporary Art
1999 - São Paulo SP - Tailored: The figure in contemporary photography, in the Porto Seguro Photography Space
1999 - São Paulo SP - Expanded Territory, at Sesc Pompéia
2000 - Belo Horizonte MG - Investigations: They are or are not engravings, at Itaú Cultural
2000 - Brasília DF - Investigations: they are or are not engravings, at the Itaú Cultural Gallery
2000 - Caxias do Sul RS - Contemporary Art Exhibition, at the University of Caxias do South
2000 - Curitiba PR - 12th Mostra da Engraving Cidade de Curitiba. Body marks, soul folds
2000 - Guadalajara (Mexico) - photography not photography, at the Museum of Las Artes de Guadalajara University
2000 - Guadalajara (Mexico) - America Latino photo: La Photography en El Arte Contemporânea, at the Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara
2000 - Madrid (Spain) - Armory Art Fair
2000 - New York (United States) - Summer Group Exhibitions, at the Paula Cooper Gallery
2000 - Paris (France) - Elysian Fields at the Center Georges Pompidou
2000 - Paris (France) - Arts Dans Lê Monde, at Pont Alexandre III
2000 - Pontevedra (Spain) - 26th Pontevedra Biennial, in the Faculty of Social Sciences
2000 - Porto (Portugal) - Collective Gallery Canvas
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - The image of the sound of Gilberto Gil, at Paço Imperial
2000 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection: New Acquisitions, at MAM/RJ
2000 - São Paulo SP - Contemporary Drawing Module I, at MAM/SP
2000 - São Paulo SP - End of Millennium: The 90s, at MAM/SP
2000 - São Paulo SP - New work, MAC/USP
2000 - São Paulo SP - Passages, at Centro Universitário Maria Antonia
2000 - Valencia (Spain) - Mujeres de las dos Orilas, at the Center Valencià de Cultura Mediterrànea La Beneficence
2001 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Rediscovery Exhibition: Contemporary Nucleus, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires
2001 - Campinas SP - Displacements of the self: Digital and pre-digital self-portrait in Brazilian art 1976 - 2001, at Itaú Cultural
2001 - Caracas (Venezuela) - 4th Bienal do Barro de América
2001 - Madrid (Spain) - Arc 2001
2001 - New York (United States) - Armory Art Fair
2001 - São Paulo SP - 4th Barro de America Biennale, at the Memorial Foundation of Latin America
2001 - São Paulo SP - Arco das Rosas: Marchand as curator, at Casa das Rosas
2001 - São Paulo SP - Self-portrait, artist mirror, at the Fiesp Cultural Center
2001 - São Paulo SP - Photography/No Photography, at MAM/SP
2001 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian Art Museum: 40 years old, MAB/FAAP
2001 - São Paulo SP - Trajectory of light in Brazilian art, at Itaú Cultural
2001 - Washington (United States) - Virgin Territory: Women, Gender, and History in Contemporary Brazilian Art, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Paths of the Contemporary 1952-2002, at Paço Imperial
2002 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Sandra Cinto, José Rufino, at the Sérgio Porto Cultural Space
2002 - São Paulo SP - Albano Afonso, Ricardo Carioba, sandra cinto, Laura Lima, Rubens Mano, Mário Ramiro, Mauro Restiffe, Márcia Xavier, at Galeria Casa Triângulo
2002 - São Paulo SP MAM/SP
2002 - São Paulo SP - Unusual, at MAM/SP
2002 - São Paulo SP - Nefelibatas, at MAM/SP
2002 - São Paulo SP - Paralela, in the shed Located at Avenida Matarazzo, 530
2003 - Iowa City (United States) - Layers of Brazilian Art, at the Faulconer Gallery
2003 - São Paulo SP - The subversion of the media, in Itaú cultural
2003 - São Paulo SP - Casa Triângulo, at Casa Triângulo
2003 - São Paulo SP - MetaCorpos, at Paço das Artes
2003 - São Paulo SP - My friends, at MAM/SP
2003 - São Paulo SP - Ordination and vertigo, at CCBB
2004 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - New Acquisitions 2003: Gilberto Chateubriand Collection, at MAM/RJ
2004 - São Paulo SP - A photo Dissolved, at Sesc Pompéia
2004 - São Paulo SP - Contemporary Art at the Municipal Collection, at the CCSP
2004 - São Paulo SP - New acquisitions: 1995 - 2003, at the MAB/FAAP
2004 - São Paulo SP - Photography and sculpture in the MAM collection - 1995 to 2004, at MAM/SP
Source: Itaú Cultural