African Landscape (Timbuktu) Print

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 Matisse, creating a particular and innovative dialogue with the history of art. Ita Xavier's works are the reflection of all his artistic restlessness and his constant search for new paths, which lead to a singular work with many faces, but always with the same provocative soul. -Text by Guilherme Fortes Berton, artist's friend