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RITA DA COsTA

Lives and works in sintra, portugal
 www.ritadacosta.com
artist contact
 ritacostapainting@sapo.pt
BOdYx 2001, 2005 gLazeD on wHite cLay 13x24x5,5 in. /34x62x15 cm.
The clay sculptures have no name as of yet. The improvisation of the act of shaping is the same, but the results are radically different, and so
action, the gesture of modeling equal improvisation lead to abstraction, ”Body X’ is a part of a bigger body, evolving endlessly. The series started in
and the ”Body X” is always growing, organically, like a body, like a city or 2001 and it moved in 2003 towards drawings and smaller size sculptures,
like art is evolving. The improvisation of the gesture, of the action, and the and subsequently in glazed tiled panels and in 2005 in 3D. TRENDS