Where are my Paintings? (English Version)
Her early
artworks were her favorites. They were those in which she used oil without
sparing in brush strokes, in the 60's. She doesn't have any pictures of these
works. The rest are documented extensively. Here is an interview and a video in
which Cristina tells us about that and the different stages of her long
artistic career.
"In
my house, as I painted a lot, there were so many canvases that my mother told me
there was no place in my room, even though it was a large room. That's why we
gave my paintings to a friend to storage them. After that, I traveled to Spain,
and when I returned to Buenos Aires, after seven years, my friend was gone,
"says Cristina. In the next video are missing images of those lost
paintings, but to see her description of how she painted at that time
definitely fills the senses.
Theatrical
She
claims not to have a definite theme, although places, things, and everything
that attracts her attention, such as theater, inspire her.
One of
his seven series on his website is titled Theatrical. In the prologue, she
writes, "I always had a fascination for stage art, especially for opera. A
scenario is a magic box where amazing things happen. And that's what I wanted
to tell through my images, especially those of the Venetian carnival, for which
I feel a great attraction ".
In her
youth, when she lived in Buenos Aires, she painted gigantic curtains to serve
as background for plays in the best theaters in Argentina. These curtains were
sometimes sold to other theaters or were transformed into something different
to be re-used in other theaters.
When she
came to reside in Maryland, 14 years ago, to reunite with her son and daughter,
who already lived here, got a job with the stage design group at the Lyric
Opera Theater in Baltimore. She also worked at The Gala Theater in Wahington
DC. That is why her series based on this thematic is vast.
Murals
At one
time she worked painting murals and decorating wooden furniture to make them
look old, so many of her work pieces are housed in private residences in the
areas of Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC. On this side of the world also,
there was a time when Cristina would draw fairies, angels, and gnomes. In her
current residence, she has an artwork called Elfos de Luz (Light Elves), a
drawing on paper that she made with graphite and colored pencils, which she
assures will never sell for anything in the world.
In
Barcelona, Spain, she was part of the collective permanent exhibition in the
Plaza del Pi. So many of the paintings that she sold at that time stayed on
that other side of the world.
