KALISSA PEQUITO

Brazilian and arts aficionate since 1983, mainly since birth. As a child, she was always encouraged and empowered by her parents and grandmother to develop herself with free courses in painting, drawing and sculpture. In 2006, she graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the Catholic University of Paraná, a degree that covers all aspects of art and expanded knowledge about the Universe of Art. She backed up her inspirations in Italy, France, Switzerland, the Dominican Republic and, Brazil, countries where she lived in search of knowledge and cultural expertise. In Brazil, she went through a Master in Business Administration from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. In Rome, she studied Italian language and photography. In Paris, she studied French, worked in an architecture office and went though a post-graduate degree in studies of History of Art and Restoration of Monuments at the École du Louvre.In 2018, the artist participated in two individual painting exhibitions in the city of Curitiba and a collective exhibition of ceramic sculpture in the city of Paranaguá, both in Brazil.With influences of Tropicalism and Pop Art, the artworks represent slightly abstract natures and ultra-colored elements, supported in forms that enhance concentric and expansive displacements.Her sensitivity in the use of colors and the disposition of nature elements establishes a creative "playground" with the specific landscape layout, bringing life and soul that each work proposes to honor.The spectator is invited to look through all the forms, all the movements and all the chromatic exuberance, in this respective order of creation.The artist portrays a contemporary art, that visits Tropicalism and Pop Art and joins a sensitive and creative look at nature that appears timidly in the middle of urban concrete.Her artworks are always connected to thoughts, creativity and emotion. Therefore, full satisfaction during the creation of the artworks does not occur in a single moment. It disappears gradually with each stroke, concomitant to moments of "brainstorm" and euphoria.Art is the strongest of passions, it needs to be nourished and colored every day. The creative process is part of the artist and as important as the end result of an artwork.