Cristina Ghetti
1969
(SPAIN)
ARGENTINE
Cristina Ghetti is an abstract painter whose work mobilizes the visual languages of Op Art, Geometric Abstraction, and Kinetic Art to explore the intersection of perception and reality.
Born in Argentina, she lives and works in Valencia, Spain.
Education
Ghetti earned her Master of Visual Arts and Multimedia at the Polytechnic University in Valencia, Spain, where she developed a strong interest in working with experts in adjacent fields, such as informaticians and mathematicians.
Her research into the development of new geometries in the visual arts culminated in her doctoral thesis, titled “Post Medial Geometry.”
Technique
Ghetti is interested in cross-disciplinary methods and tools. She originates her compositions on the computer, utilizing digital tools to develop images that trick the mind into perceiving things like movement and depth on a two-dimensional, static plane. She then translates her compositions into traditional paintings using acrylic paint on canvas. What is most interesting to her about this process is the perceptual and experiential relationships it uncovers. Digital media allows her to immerse herself within a virtual environment, while the work of translating that virtual image into a material image-object using paint and canvas raises questions about where the line can be drawn between reality and perception.
Inspiration
In the tradition of art historical movements like Concrete Art, Constructivism, Kinetic Art and Op Art, Ghetti searches for ways to encourage viewers to participate actively with her art.
Inspired by phenomena such as Synesthesia, in which a person perceives one sense with the tools of another sense, like hearing colour or seeing smell, she creates moments in her paintings where the mind is unsure about what kind of sensation it is experiencing. The linear, concentric patterns she employs create what are known as formal redundancies, which are key in creating the illusion of movement.
Like artists such as Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, or Jesús Rafael Soto, Ghetti is most curious about what types of experiences people can have with a work of participatory art that challenges their fundamental assumptions. At the heart of this work is an interest in perception.
Notable Quote
“I am focused on the evolution of Kinetic Art, especially Op art, where geometry, colour, movement and sound interrelate in the conceptual territory of abstraction, in the context of new technologies and new ways of producing/diffusing the art work.”
Exhibitions
Ghetti has exhibited her work extensively, including recent exhibitions at MACBA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires), the Argentine Embassy, Washington, DC, and Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, among others.
Collections
Her work is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of San José Costa Rica, the Municipal Museum of Plastic Arts Eduardo Sívori, Buenos Aires, the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts of the Province of Corrientes, the Provincial Museum of Santa Rosa, Province of La Pampa, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, the Max Aub Foundation, and the Sculpture Park of Rincón de Ademuz, Spain, as well as in numerous private collections.
Galleries
Imaginart Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
The Blink Project, Valencia, Spain
100Kubik Gallery, Köln, Germany
Galería del Paseo, Punta del Este, Uruguay / Lima, Perú
Rofa projects, Washington, USA
Ai Bo Gallery, Purchase NY, USA
Sharon Fischtein fine Arts, Toronto, Canada
Luz Botero fine arts, Panama City
Klaus Steinmetz Contemporary, San José, Costa Rica
Studiogallerymelbourne, Melbourne / Sydney, Australia
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