Ita Xavier

Ita’s touch has a beautiful searching quality. The restless marks speed quickly in the peripheral elements so they may come together where his focus lies. He’s willing to leave parts hardly touched, in pursuit of what matters. In this way, he honors life in what is rendered flat by many artists. Clearly a passionate student of art history, we see Ita’s conversations with Rembrandt, Daumier, Picasso and many more in his fine explorations.
His subjects are the ordinary moments. He says his city has little art culture, and that scarcity has fueled his craving of uncovering the beauty anywhere he can find it, with no false embellishment. We should all look forward to where his searching leads.
- Text By Derek Gores, visual artist and designer.


Ita Xavier is a painter, sculptor and designer from Soledade, born on the last day of 1975, whose distinctive characteristic is the experimentation with materials and techniques.
It brings with it the perceptible and well-orchestrated aesthetic influence of Vik Muniz's unusual and stripped-down work, the critical aggressiveness of Marcel Duchamp with his readymades, the brilliant cubist exuberance of Picasso, the insane solitary perfection of Van Gogh and the fervent intensity of Henri M...

Graduated from the College of Arts and Communication of the University of Passo Fundo, class 2007/10.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
- Correios Anniversary Exhibition – Arts that Enchant Porto Alegre, Espaço
Cultural Correios, from March 20 to May 11, 2007, in honor of the
38 years of the Brazilian Post and Telegraph Company. third party award
place in this 2007 exhibition.
- Memory and Art Exhibition at Odonto from May 12 to 23, 2008, promoted
by the College of Dentistry in partnership with the College of Arts and
Communication from the University of Passo Fundo.
- Exhibition Talentos Correios 2008, May 5, 2008, to June 30,
2008
- Exhibition Talents Correios 2009.
- Young Artist Salon 2008, Passo Fundo Regional Show.
- Exhibition Exhibition at Work – Ita Xavier, Fernando Rocha, and Tiago Sinhor,
collective exhibition at Exposol 2013 - International Fair of Precious Stones
of Soledade.