Chira Chirastudio

Chira recognizes her interpretation of forms and pigments as a primitive process. In her pieces there is an evolution of elements, a buoyant of secrets and fire which is hold in the hi-temperature ceramic. The deeply experimental chemistry of glazes brings together the language of actual transitory époques and the prehistoric sign.

She uses azulejos, tiles, in order to bring on the surface the interior invisibilities. The combination of Chira’s Italian origin, the tradition of the great masters in the central Italy, the colours and openings of Portuguese-Mourish culture is in her ancestral language dialoguing with the contemporary shapes. The artist narrates the passage of time in large scale until arriving to count hours and minutes and seconds, she writes the path from memory to imagination.

After graduating in Painting from the Academy of Fine Art of Florence, Chira explored different media expressions, which contributed to the formation of her visual dictionary. Motion graphics and graphic novels in particular influenced her compositions. In 2014 Chira exhibited at the O. Licini Art Gallery in Ascoli, Italy. In 2015 at the Independent Art Biennial in Liverpool and at the Parallax Art Fair of London and at Folli 50.0 in Milan.

Selected Exhibitions

2017 Bienal de Cerâmica Manuel Joaquim Alfonso, Museo da Cerâmica de Sacavém, Lisbon
2015 Folli 50.0, Milan
2015 Parallax Art Fair, London
2014 Independent Artist’s Biennial, Liverpool
2014 Osvaldo Licini Art Gallery, Ascoli Piceno
2014 Biblioteca Benincasa, Ancona

Group Exhibition

2016 Galeria da Faculdade de Belas Artes Pè Dereito, Lisbon

Solo Exhibitions

2016 Tascamastai, Fango in Tasca, Lisbon
2016 Laboratorio41 Dentro la Caverna, Macerata
2014 Sisma, Bestiari, Macerata