CRISTINA SIKORA art

10/09/2019

“Desire…is the engine that ingites the necessary spark to transform things.One desires, imagines, projects oneself prior to undertake any action or change on the immediate reality. A germinal idea can foster several things, but beyond actual results, the most important is not to lose the capacity to imagine, project and create…”

CRISTINA SIKORA was born in Buenos Aires in 1960. She studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). In the beginning, she teaches at the UBA, in the area of Visual Communication, Morphology and Drawing. She participates in research work at Jeneux et Patrimoine, an organization dependent on ICOMOS International and as researcher for the American Architecture Institute of the University of Buenos Aires. She has worked as architect in her own studio since 1988.
At the same time, she develops her career as a Visual Artist in the art workshops of Carolina Cerverizzo, Marco Otero and works since 1911 conducts Portfolio Reviews with Jorge Abot.

Solo Exhibitions Argentina

2018 Alicia Ceballos, Eugenio Taboada, Cristina Sikora “Tres Historias"
Borges Cultural Center. Buenos Aires
2015 “Geometrías del Alma” Thames Gallery. Palermo
2010 “Módena Design”. Buenos Aires

Distinctions and awards (selection) - Argentina

2019 First Prize - Fall Salon Exhibition SAAP (Argentine Society of Visual Artists). Raggio Museum
2017 Mention - Manuel Belgrano Salon. Sívori Museum.
2016 Second Prize - Prize for Artistic Creation of the University of Belgrano
2014 First Prize - Fall Salon Exhibition SAAP (Argentine Society of Visual Artists)
2014 First Prize - Fall Salon of the Arts Forum of Vicente López
2013 First Prize – Spring Salon Exhibition. Municipality of San Fernando
2011 First Prize – Salon Leopoldo Presas SAAP
2010 First Mention - Casan Award, Maguncia Museum La Boca
2009 First Prize - Summer Salon Studio Gallery 54
2009 First Prize - Autumn Salon Gallery R van R San Telmo

Group Exhibitions (selection) - Argentina

2019 Fall Salon Argentine Society of Visual Artists. Raggio Museum
2018 Small Format Space Room Soler Palermo
2017 First Salon Annual Artists Association Tigre. Sudestada 9.37 R. Milberg
2017 Room +40 Raggio Vicente López Museum
2017 Artvilo Museum Raggio Vicente López
2016 Night of the Museums University of Belgrano
2014 Artvilo Hall Rómulo Raggio Museum
2014 Fall Salon Exhibition SAAP Buenos Aires Stock Exchange /
Félix Amador Luján Museum. Buenos Aires
2013 Manuel Belgrano Room Sívori Museum
2012 Manuel Belgrano Room Sívori Museum
2012 Guillermo Manzón Salon, City Council of Vicente López

Geometry sustains, balances her artwork and lays out her composition making reference to her work as an architect. The inclusion of textures and materials gathered throughout time (old sheet music, wood, steel mesh, paper) takes on a new meaning and becomes part of a new wholeness. A diverse world, interlocked with shapes, shades and textures preserving a sensitive essence full of personal connotations.

CONTACT ME: cristinasikora.art@gmail.com

06/09/2019

OF THE SERIES "ENCUENTROS"

Acrylic on canvas
120 x 80

Acrylic on canvas

120 x 80

ENCUENTROS
acrylic on canvas
90 X 120

RAGGIO MUSEUM - 1st Price Argentine Society of Plastic Artist. Buenos Aires

POSTALES I
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 80

OF THE SERIES "PEQUEÑECES" II

Acrylic on wood

13 x 18

Acrylic on wood
13 x 18

Acrylic on wood

13 x 18

Acrylic on wood

13 x 18

Acrylic on wood

13 x 18

Acrylic on wood

13 x 18

OF DE SERIES "PEQUEÑECES I"

PEQUEÑOS MENSAJES IV
Acrylic on Canvas
27 x 15

PEQUEÑOS MENSAJES V
Acrylic on Canvas
27 X 15

CRISTICS / COMMENTS

CRISTINA SIKORA. …She takes us by the hand to contemplate her artwork. Our eyes travel through the paths that she proposes, without any loss. Diagonals that crisscross violently, silences of containment over textures that surround us, to make way for color in a universe that she delimits. She leads our eyes so that they open the door, not only of a formal path, but in search of emotion, of contemplation as well. Her painting stops our walk, invites us to leave the daily dizziness so that we enter into its poesy and activates the best of us, enabling us to open our senses. Cristina gives us not merely her aesthetics, but also her ethics through painting, in search of that other, showing the communication capacity of painting.

Jorge Abot