Sandra Cinto: Prelude to the Sun and the Stars (Preludi Per Al Sol I Les Estrelles): Es Baluard Museu D'Art Contemporani de Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Forthcoming exhibition
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With Prelude for the Sun and the Stars, Sandra Cinto transforms Exhibition Hall C at the Es Baluard Museu into a place suspended between time, matter and perception: a space that does not impose itself, but rather envelops the viewer in an expanded landscape that invites pause, listening and contemplation. The site-specific installation, constructed from drawings, lines and rhythm, generates an immersive experience as part of a sensory journey.
Sandra Cinto has been one of Brazil’s most outstanding artists since the 1990s, and has gained international recognition for her mastery of drawing and painting, as well as her versatility in working with various media. From monumental murals to delicate small-format paintings, wooden or ceramic sculptures, installations with paper, objects-book and even furniture objects, her work is characterized by a unique visual language, rich in symbolism and portraying lyrical landscapes and narratives that oscillate between symbolic projection, fantasy and reality.
The exhibition unfolds across three areas that are connected through drawing and interact with each other, creating an enveloping experience as well as generating environments for hope and transformation. The first is an installation composed of large-scale canvases that occupy a significant portion of the exhibition space, evoking the seven seas—an allusion to the complexity of travel and displacement in contemporary society. The other two spaces feature two large murals: one is golden, alluding to a luminous, open, metaphysical landscape without borders, while the other is dark blue, suggesting night, silence and introspection. These surfaces, far from being simple backgrounds, are transformed into emotional architecture where drawing becomes a symbolic, poetic field, and both light and water act as metaphors for the passing of time, which transforms everything in their path.
For Cinto, drawing transcends two-dimensionality and expands harmoniously into the space, connecting the different parts of the installation through its strokes. Perception here is not only visual: the viewer moves through a multi sensory environment that enhances the experience, helping to enter an intimate atmosphere and align with the drawn universe. The exhibition is presented as a refuge that invites pause, silence and reflection, a space-time where the body listens, breathes and inhabits the work.
The exhibition offers a journey through different stages that reposition the viewer, catalyzing the micro and the macro in a single experience: from the intimate and corporeal to the cosmic and universal. Turbulent seas and starry skies are intertwined with the museum’s architecture, generating an illusion of expansion. The structuring of stages connects the body, the spirit and the cosmos in a shared trip that encourages us to recognize and empathize with the journeys of others, which is a collective, human experience. Sandra’s work flows, inviting us to intuitively enter the world of dreams and symbols, where anything is possible, while offering a sensitive and urgent interpretation of the present. With pieces charged with symbolism and memory, her work calls us to see, imagine and hope together.
Sandra Cinto has been one of Brazil’s most outstanding artists since the 1990s, and has gained international recognition for her mastery of drawing and painting, as well as her versatility in working with various media. From monumental murals to delicate small-format paintings, wooden or ceramic sculptures, installations with paper, objects-book and even furniture objects, her work is characterized by a unique visual language, rich in symbolism and portraying lyrical landscapes and narratives that oscillate between symbolic projection, fantasy and reality.
The exhibition unfolds across three areas that are connected through drawing and interact with each other, creating an enveloping experience as well as generating environments for hope and transformation. The first is an installation composed of large-scale canvases that occupy a significant portion of the exhibition space, evoking the seven seas—an allusion to the complexity of travel and displacement in contemporary society. The other two spaces feature two large murals: one is golden, alluding to a luminous, open, metaphysical landscape without borders, while the other is dark blue, suggesting night, silence and introspection. These surfaces, far from being simple backgrounds, are transformed into emotional architecture where drawing becomes a symbolic, poetic field, and both light and water act as metaphors for the passing of time, which transforms everything in their path.
For Cinto, drawing transcends two-dimensionality and expands harmoniously into the space, connecting the different parts of the installation through its strokes. Perception here is not only visual: the viewer moves through a multi sensory environment that enhances the experience, helping to enter an intimate atmosphere and align with the drawn universe. The exhibition is presented as a refuge that invites pause, silence and reflection, a space-time where the body listens, breathes and inhabits the work.
The exhibition offers a journey through different stages that reposition the viewer, catalyzing the micro and the macro in a single experience: from the intimate and corporeal to the cosmic and universal. Turbulent seas and starry skies are intertwined with the museum’s architecture, generating an illusion of expansion. The structuring of stages connects the body, the spirit and the cosmos in a shared trip that encourages us to recognize and empathize with the journeys of others, which is a collective, human experience. Sandra’s work flows, inviting us to intuitively enter the world of dreams and symbols, where anything is possible, while offering a sensitive and urgent interpretation of the present. With pieces charged with symbolism and memory, her work calls us to see, imagine and hope together.
