Ciça Callegari magical and fascinating symbiosis

''There is a magical and fascinating symbiosis in this process. I often become a tool in which portions of inert mass await me to be transformed and brought to life. - Ciça Callegari

Contraponto. Resin. 20 x 26 x 34 cm, 21 x 30 x 38 cm. 2019 Ciça Callegari © All rights reserved.

Ego. Resin. 35 x 25 x 20 cm. 2017 Ciça Callegari © All rights reserved.

João Sem Braço. Resina. 28 x 28 x 19 cm. 2016 Ciça Callegari © All rights reserved.

Ciça Callegari magical and fascinating symbiosis

Ciça Callegari (b. 1959, Brazil) lives and works between São Paulo and the countryside of Minas Gerais, where she keeps her studio.

Callegari graduated in Journalism and Social Communications; she has worked in TV networks and in the video industry as a screenwriter, image editor, movie reporter, and cameraperson in Brazil and the US.

In 2005 she started her studies in ceramics, modeling, and sculpture, attending classes and workshops in art studios, art study groups, and sculpture schools in Brazil and Spain. Even though Ciça Callegari uses her academic, artistic knowledge as a basis for her sculptures, this academicism is just the skeleton that sustains the emotion she conveys in each piece. Her sculptures summarize her social, political, and emotional milieu. They are caricatures of the human condition with a shot of humor, pain, and hope.