Cristina Canale (1961, Rio de Janeiro) brings to Galeria Nara Roesler her recent works, most of which were realized in 2004. There are 14 works - mixed media on canvas - that reveal how the artist has remained consistent with her essence as a painter even living for 11 years in Germany, where the strength of other media - such as installation, photography and video - has been especially prevalent in the artistic environment. Belonging to the 80's generation, she participated in the famous exhibition Como Vai Você Geração 80?, Canale is today part of the group of artists who reaffirm the inexhaustible power of painting.
With her figurative canvases that draw on elements of abstraction, Cristina Canale is part of the best of the world colorist tradition. "The colors seem light, almost impalpable. The elements could dissolve into each other. But this does not happen. The soft shapes park next to each other, and manage to coordinate. Not everything falls apart. There, the artist finds her figures, as when we find characteristic images when we look at the clouds or the contours that the waves leave on the edge of the sea", writes the critic Tiago Mesquita, in the catalog of this exhibition at Galeria Nara Roesler.
For the critic, still, the images that emerge from a diluted structure, have a narrative dimension, usually bringing scenes of domestic situations."When we find them [the images], it seems possible to have a singular look at them. Like when we look at souvenir photos. The half-blurred house reminds us of curly leaves around it, of a darkness that invaded the rooms, the smell of the street and the temperature of the city. The painting looks at the image and the established genres of painting subjectively, believing in a singular experience. In the same way that the Impressionists looked at the world".
Cristina Canale, who took part in the São Paulo International Biennial in 1991, lives in Germany but maintains a studio in Rio de Janeiro. She moved to Berlin in 1993, when she received a scholarship from the D.A.A.D. (the German government's academic exchange service) at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. Today he exhibits in important galleries and art centers in Brazil and Germany and also in other countries such as the United States and France.