Paulo coelho christina oiticica biography

Brazilian artist

Christina Oiticica (born 23 November 1951) is a Brazilian artist.^[1] She has been married to Paulo Coelho since 1980.

Oiticica is known for using an exotic neoconcretist technique that is reminiscent of both land art and eco art, a technique that allows nature’s elements to act upon her works.

Paulo coelho christina oiticica biography

Oiticica is a "daughter" of the experimental art movement of the 1970s arisen in Rio de Janeiro, where she was born, and has taken her paintings all around the world.

Oiticica idealized the combination of land art – which uses nature as foundation matter – with a painting in the French Pyrenees, when she decided to paint a 10-meter long canvas in the middle of nature in the open air, as she realized not to have a covered area that would enable her to create on such surface.

Once her work was finished, she left it to dry right there, outside. On the next day, as she went back to pick it up, she found that dust, dirt, leaves and some insect