É aqui que eu quero morar - Acrylic & Collage on Canvas 31.5'' x 41'' Bright, ebulliently colorful circles and squares are the building blocks of Isabel Santta Cecilia’s painted collages, and yet she achieves a sense of infinite, organic diversity and growth in even her most abstract works. Many of the self-taught Brazilian artist’s compositions feature floral patterns, or evoke a bouquet with circular motifs and richly layered and rhythmic patterns. On occasion, the play of geometric forms evokes the Cubist still lifes of Picasso and Braque, while elsewhere the overwhelming energy and vibrancy of the collages calls to mind Pop artist Takashi Murakami. Santta Cecilia courts this tension between flatness and depth, perspective and surface, often moving between abstraction and figuration within the same piece.
 
This contrast between pictorial depth and lush surfaces is reflected in Santta Cecilia’s choice of colors and forms, which veer between bold primaries and lush muted tones, filling out sharp lines or spilling over organic forms. This playful mixing of realistic and artificial colors, rigid and flowing forms, all contribute to the dazzlingly stylized naturalism of Santta Cecilia’s acrylic collages.

The resulting compositions—playful circles coalescing and overlapping against strong color fields—sometimes resemble wooded landscapes and pots of flowers pushed to the edge of abstraction. Santta Cecilia lets us explore this beautiful border region between landscape painting and abstract Pop art in full bloom.

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