There are paintings that present themselves at first glance. Isabel Cristina’s, however, ask
for silence before the meeting. It’s in that pause that the canvas begins to speak — and
what it says isn’t easy to translate: layers of color, vibration, and gesture creating a space
that only exists when the eye allows itself to drift.
Her universe is born out of abstraction, yet never confined by it. Amid fields of color, lines,
and geometric forms, there’s always a movement that feels organic, almost instinctive. It’s
as if, rather than planning the image, she lets the surface breathe and find its own way of
existing. Every hue pulses; every texture searches for a place to rest.
Born in Lajeado, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and raised in Arroio do Meio, Isabel
Cristina discovered the joy of drawing and painting at an early age. Life later took her to
Porto Alegre, and after getting married, she moved to Erechim, where she now maintains
her studio.
With a degree in Business Administration, it was through painting—first started over ten
years ago as a hobby—that she found her most authentic form of expression. Self-taught,
she has built her own path: one that is detailed, intuitive, and where abstraction and
geometry coexist freely.
A careful eye notices that nothing here is literal. The colors — sometimes intense,
sometimes airy — are living bodies that collide and repel, creating a tension that never fully
resolves. In this pictorial space, painting becomes an experience: it’s not about what you
see; it’s about what you feel.
There is a kinship between her artistic research and the idea of a living territory. Not
because she depicts one, but because her works share that same vitality and multiplicity:
the abundance of rhythms, the many directions, the constant dialogue between chaos and
harmony.
Standing before an Isabel Cristina painting, abstraction stops being distant and becomes
intimate. The colors approach you like voices; the gestures, like secret maps. Her art
doesn’t just ask to be felt — it asks to be understood. In each canvas, there is a kind of
architecture of emotion, where feeling and structure coexist. And maybe that’s where its
greatest beauty lies: turning the act of looking into a journey — where each of us discovers,
in our own way, a personal landscape.
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