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#about
Cristina Motta (1963) was born in Lisbon, where she lives. She uses different media to create collages, that may either be analogue or digital.
She is represented in EDP Foundation Art Collection / Cabrita Reis Section.
Solo exhibitions:
2021, “On the Chinese Wall & Other Kalkitos”, Zaratan, Lisbon
Group exhibitions:
2024, “Lápis Vermelho”, Zaratan, Lisbon
2023, “Álbum de Família”, Obras da Coleção Carmona e Costa, Ciclo “Art Collections”, Appleton Box
2023, “Hammer Time”, Zaratan, Lisboa. Co-work with Felix Wong
2023, “Drowning Room” by Felix Vong, Cosmos, Lisboa
2022, “Hammer Time”, Zaratan, Lisbon
2022, “This is a Bar - Joaquim Bravo, Turismo e o Algarve”, Pavilhão Branco, Galerias Municipais, Lisbon (curated by Diogo Pinto)
2021, “Hammer Time”, Zaratan, Lisbon
2017, “O Que Eu Sou”, MAAT, Lisbon (curated by Inês Grosso and Luiza Teixeira de Freitas )
2017, “Crisálida”, Atelier Planador, Mafra (curated by Manuel Justo)
#index
Photomontages
Paintings / Collages
Drawings
Objects
Exhibitions
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#Ausências
“Drawing Crocodiles”, Drowning Room , 2023
“She’s not there”, Private Collection, 2023
“Nosso Ideal, Portugal”, 2024
“Art For All”, 2023
Cristina Motta & Felix Vong
“Emotional Landscapes”
2021
Background images: Cristina Motta
Figures: Vitorino Coragem
Inkjet Printing on Paper 200g
#kalkitos
1st series (2020)
1st background image: Manuel Justo
Other background images: Cristina Motta
Transfer figures: Cristina Motta et al
Inkjet Printing on Paper 200g, 21x29,7 cm
In this 1st series, inspired by action transfers, aka kalkitos, in which one was supposed to rub down figures on cardboard sceneries, I used digital pictures taken by myself (except for the first one) as background to create scenes that at first sight could be mistaken for real pictures, in spite of their surrealistic touch.
In some of the works below I used actual kalkitos’ backgrounds and/or figures.
2nd series (2020/2021)
Background images: Albert Graf
Transfer figures: Vitorino Coragem
Inkjet Printing on Paper 200g, 29,7x42 cm
In this series of 14 slides taken by my German grandfather in the 50s and 60s I put myself in them as if I were an action transfer.
Rubbed down on the wrong background, I seem a figure from the future trying to grasp his past.
3rd series (2021)
Background images (1-2): Cristina Motta
Background images (3-7): Victor Carvalho
Transfer figures: Vitorino Coragem
“Like a bird”
Inkjet Printing on Paper 300g, 29,7x42 cm
This series is called “Hanging around Iceland”. I used as background images slides taken by travel photographer Victor Carvalho on one of his many trips.
Inkjet Printing on Paper 200g, 29,7x42 cm
#paintings / #collages
mixed media, acrylic paint and collage on different backgrounds
1992
EDP Foundation Art Collection / Cabrita Reis Section
1994
Private Collection
2017
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2018
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2019
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#drawings
1992
EDP Foundation Art Collection / Cabrita Reis Section
#objects
1988
Private Collection
mixed media
2015
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2019
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#soloexhibitions
2020, “On the Chinese Wall & Other Kalkitos”, Zaratan, Lisbon
https://zaratan.pt/pt/exhibit/87
photo credit: Nuno Direitinho
#groupexhibitions
2024, “Lápis Vermelho”, Zaratan, Lisboa
https://zaratan.pt/en/exhibit/116
2023, “Álbum de Família”, Obras da Coleção Carmona e Costa, Ciclo “Art Collections”, Appleton Box
https://appleton.pt/album-de-familia/?lang=pt-pt
2023, “Hammer Time”, Zaratan, Lisboa. Co-work with Felix Wong
https://zaratan.pt//pt/exhibit/112
2023, “Drowning Room” by Felix Vong, Cosmos, Lisboa
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyf160BM2bA/?img_index=1
2022, “Hammer Time”, Zaratan, Lisbon
https://zaratan.pt/pt/exhibit/106
2022, “This is a Bar - Joaquim Bravo, Turismo e o Algarve”, Pavilhão Branco, Galerias Municipais, Lisbon
curated by Diogo Pinto
https://galeriasmunicipais.pt/exposicoes/this-is-a-bar-ou-praia-de-banhos-joaquim-bravo-turismo-e-o-algarve/
2021, “Hammer Time”, Zaratan, Lisbon
https://zaratan.pt//pt/exhibit/90
2017, “O Que Eu Sou”, MAAT, Lisbon
curated by Inês Grosso and Luiza Teixeira de Freitas
https://www.maat.pt/pt/exhibition/o-que-eu-sou
photo credit: Bruno Lopes for EDP Foundation
2017, “Crisálida”, Atelier Planador, Mafra, Portugal
curated by Manuel Justo
Exhibition of works of artists that at some point used José Miranda Justo’s studio: António Mira, Cristina Motta, Diogo Pinto, Eduardo Fonseca e Silva, Hugo Canoilas, João Ferro Martins, José M. Justo, Manuel Justo, Matilde Martins, Nuno Gonçalves
