The outsider soul of Sandra Rigo dots different seasons on this website with her pictorial hands. Vigorous and explosive, his large-format paintings make our eyes dance, between contrasts and different shades in search of the details presented in the smaller formats. From micro to macro, poetic explosions! Each work reflects his journey, from the Pampas Gaúchos, in Santo Ângelo, where he was born, through Salvador, a place of pulsating light, where he lived for fifteen years, or in Brasília, a place where, from the 1990s until 2019, he discovered the cerrado, contaminating her hands with red clay and being contaminated by Brazilian music as companions, in the solitude of her studio.
Thus, Rigo's walking hand did not resist, and the artist painted in all her movements, composing wherever she was, or simply experiencing other different territories, such as Stuttgart, in Germany, where she also lived for three months with her teacher as artist Mares Schultz. From May 2019 to 2023, he lives in Daejeon, where his painting hand never rested. Experiencing the striking change of seasons in South Korea, the distinct chromatic hues once again dyed their hands, and the colors danced on the banks of the Han River while listening to Korean music. How can we not remember the pictorial calligraphy of Shin Saimdang (1504-1551), a Korean painter who lived during the Joseon Kingdom period (1392-1910)? How can we not notice approximations in the details of Rigo's painting, shadows of bamboo dripping onto the canvas or chroma of orchids, plums, chrysanthemums or cherry trees? Here, on this site, we can listen and dance in Sandra Rigo's chromatic palette, with the certainty that new gardens are to come, as the artist continues to walk. In between; The work is in the process of germination… Viga Gordilho Visual Artist and Professor at the UFBA School of Fine Arts Spring, 2023