Tanya Bonakdar is pleased to announce the unveiling of Sandra Cinto's site-specific commission for the Dallas Museum of Art, now on view through July 5, 2020.
Sandra Cinto will transform the Museum's Concourse hall with Landscape of a Lifetime, a 153-foot mural covering the walls and ceiling in 24 shades of blue, shifting from dark to light to give the impression of the transition from night to day. Viewers will be immersed in a lyrical landscape of intricately hand-drawn lines and celestial forms, punctuated by canvases with the same motifs rendered in gorgeous detail. Low-level audio of sounds recorded by the artist (running water, rustling leaves, birds, etc.) played in the Concourse will further enhance the artist's investigation of life and natural cycles.
Throughout her career, Sandra Cinto has developed a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines to create lyrical landscapes and narratives that hover between fantasy and reality. Using drawing as her point of departure, the artist renders intricate and mesmerizing environments of turbulent seascapes, violent rainstorms, and celestial skies that frequently engage with the surrounding architecture to a disorienting effect, creating the illusion of a weightless, spiraling universe. Evoking stories of human hardship and redemption, these fantastical landscapes serve as a metaphor for the human odyssey, while also pushing the limits and possibilities of drawing.
Among her many public projects and commissions worldwide, her most notable include Untitled for Murals of La Jolla (2018-ongoing), The Invisible Telescope, at USF Kate Tiedemann College of Business (2018-permanent), Library of Love at the Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati (2017-ongoing), O Grande Sol, P.S. 56 (2016-permanent), One Day, After the Rain, commissioned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. (2012-2013); Encounter of Waters at Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Park Pavilion (2012-2014); A Casa das Fontes (The House of Fountains), an installation conceived for Casa do Sertanista in Sao Paulo (2013); When The Night Comes Into My Room, an outdoor public commission for Obra Viva/Esculturas Públicas (Living Work/Public Sculptures) at Parque Ecológico Municipal Estoril–Virgilio Simionatto in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil (2012); and Japonism, a public commission for the SESC swimming pool in Santo André, Brazil (2011).
Upcoming, Cinto's work will be the subject of solo exhibitions at Maison Hermès, Tokyo (2020) and at Instituto Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, solo exhibition curated by Paulo Herkenoff (2020). Also in 2020, Cinto will unveil significant permanent public commissions at the new Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York; Teatro Cultura Artística, São Paulo, Rosewood São Paulo hotel, Itaúsa Bank, São Paulo, among several others in the United States soon to be announced.