Cristie Boff (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1976) lives and works in Florence, Italy. She is a visual artist who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Her practice explores contemporary painting through research into classical techniques; for example, she uses rabbit-skin glue as the structural foundation and ground for all her canvases. She has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as Fundação Iberê Camargo (2021), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul – MACRS (Paisagens em Dois Tons, 2018), and Instituto de Artes Visuais – IEAVi (Fora da Cor, 2021). In 2019, she held her first solo exhibition, Existência, at Centro Cultural Santa Casa in Porto Alegre.
Blood flows on the earth
The landscape and the horizon are recurring themes in Cristie’s production.
The painting series “Blood flows on the earth” presents 12 canvases that explore the intensity of cadmium red. The distances – physical and symbolic – are suggested by the overlapping of the layers, achieving the balance between the silence of the white canvases and the dramatic red earth.
Based on natural cotton canvas, the canvases are prepared through a classic process that combines rabbit glue with natural elements. On the background, the artist applies pigments extracted from minerals, creating nuances and textures that are both complex and delicate at the same time.
