NYAB Event - Sandra Cinto Exhibition

Sandra Cinto Exhibition

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents new drawings, paintings and sculptures by Sandra Cinto. For the artist’s sixth solo presentation at the gallery, Cinto will transform both exhibition spaces into immersive environments of musical scores, turbulent seascapes and torrential rainstorms. Sublime and precisely executed, these new works encourage reflection on the passage of time as it relates to cycles of human life, the hardships of existence and the ultimate hope for redemption.

Building off of her earlier work with music, the artist will return to this motif in Gallery 1 with wall-to-wall drawings of empty musical staffs, punctuated by sculptural renderings of instruments. Within this starkly minimalist and surreal space, these forms become registers of tempo, poetic references to passing time that blur notions of movement and stillness as well as sound and silence. In doing so, this work suspends traditional notions of time, prompting a deeper meditation on both the course and transience of life.
Upstairs in Gallery 2, Cinto constructs similar narratives of life’s journey in a new series of large-scale canvases, which were first shown as part of her presentation at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. (2012-13). Similar to earlier works from this series, these paintings feature intricate drawings of tumultuous waves and squalls rendered in silver ink, set against vast blue backgrounds. As they parallel the movement of sunrise to nightfall with stories of human challenge and triumph, these works are also remarkable examples of the artist’s process and her increasingly deft and clever touch, which continues to push the limits and possibilities of drawing.
Alongside these paintings, the exhibition will include a series of smaller drawings on paper in the upstairs project space.

Born in 1968 in Santo André, Brazil, Cinto currently lives and works in São Paulo. Recent solo presentations include One Day, After the Rain at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. (2012-2013), Encounter of Waters at Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Park Pavilion (2012-2014), and A Casa das Fontes (The House of Fountains), an installation conceived for Casa do Sertanista in São Paulo. The artist has also presented important solo exhibitions at Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo (2010), Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art in Chile (2010), Museum of Contemporary Art Union Fenosa, MACUF in La Coruña, Spain (2007), and São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (2003), among other museums.

Media

• Drawing
• Sculpture

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