Sandra Cinto
Untitled
2016
Sculpture: 13-1/2 x 36 x 12 inches
Base: 30 x 40 x 21 inches
Alabaster, Walnut Hardwood
Unique sculpture
No Longer Available
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Sandra Cinto
Open Sea
2016
Cyanotype
22 x 30 inches
Edition: 50
$3,000. - Limited Availability - Impression Number: PP 2/3
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Sandra Cinto
Chance and Necessity
2016
Suite of five two-run, two-color direct gravures with photogravure
49-3/4 x 34 inches each
Edition: 10
Individual prints - $9,000. - Limited Availability - Untitled #5 Impression Number: PP 1/2
Suite of five - No Longer Available
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Sandra Cinto
Sandra Cinto (b. 1968) lives and works in São Paulo. She is known for her large-scale, dramatic scenarios incorporating water, the night sky and billowing seas. Japanese ukiyo-e prints and Hokusai’s iconic The Great Wave Off Kanagawa have long served as an inspiration to her, as has European Romanticism, particularly Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa, which depicts a famous sea disaster. She works in a wide range of media, including ink drawings on paper, large-scale drawings on canvas, and installations and public projects.
Open Sea
In her past work she has drawn freehand line by line with silver ink on dark blue backgrounds. During her recent residency at Graphicstudio, she employed a similar method by creating an original line drawing to produce the cyanotype Open Sea.
Chance and Necessity
The title of Chance and Necessity references a concept taken from Zen Buddhist thought. During the summer of 2015, Cinto was in residence at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre in Aomori, Japan, where she began an investigation that is continued in Chance and Necessity. She states, “... it seems that I found the water that I have so long sought to graphically represent.” Rather than depicting water, she has used it as an element, letting water tinted with ink run freely over sheets of mylar, which were used to produce this series of direct gravures.
Untitled
Untitled, an Italian alabaster sculpture, was hand carved from a single piece of stone referencing a life cast of the artists arm and hand. The alabaster is a solid material yet translucent white where light can pass through the stone almost illuminating from within. The custom made base uses traditional woodworking joinery from walnut hardwood with hand rubbed oil and wax.
Since the early 1990s, Cinto has presented her work at museums and institutions worldwide. Solo exhibitions include CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno in Madrid, Spain (2014); Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2011); and Instituto Tomie Ohtake in São Paulo (2010). Notable public projects and commissions include One Day, After the Rain, commissioned by 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 in 2013.
Further Resources
GS Blog Post: Sandra Cinto at Graphicstudio
CAM Blog Post: Randomness, Order, and Being: A Guest Post by Laura Colkitt
CAM Exhibition: Sandra Cinto: Chance and Necessity
Printmaking + Sculpture Terms
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