Sandra Chinelate - UNVEILED

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Sandra Chinelate presents UNVEILED, an original oil on canvas (40 x 40 cm, unframed) in a hyperrealist still life, signed by hand in 2026, with a certificate of authenticity and sold directly by the artist.

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Title: UNVEILED
Oil painting on canvas
No frame
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2026
With certificate of authenticity
Signed at bottom left
The side profiles, wide and fully painted, together with the hanging hook already applied, make the work immediately ready to hang, without the need for a frame.
Instagram: @sandrachinelate

In Unveiled, the dialogue between nature and artifice translates into a reflection on the dialectic between presence and absence. The opened walnut and the ancient nutcracker, suspended in a dimension of silent contemplation, transform the act of opening into an act of revelation, in which emptiness gains expressive value and the mystery remains beyond what is offered to the gaze.

Sandra Chinelate is an Italian-Brazilian artist, trained in Literature, who finds in hyperrealist painting the privileged language of her research. Self-taught since childhood, she develops a painting sensibility based on meticulous observation of reality, exploring light, matter, transparency and depth through a technique capable of returning subjects with an extraordinary visual presence.
Her research focuses on the precision of detail and the perceptual complexity of things, transforming objects and compositions into visually intense experiences. Through refined balances of light, color and perspective, Chinelate investigates what the everyday eye often overlooks, revealing hidden beauty in the texture of surfaces and in the relationship between shapes, volumes and reflections.
Having moved to Italy, she continues a personal artistic path, where the technical rigor of hyperrealism intertwines with a deep aesthetic sensitivity. She works mainly with oil paints and mixed media on canvas and board.
Since 2005 she has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows.
Her works are visible on Instagram: @sandrachinelate

Seller's Story

Sandra Chinelate is an Italian-Brazilian artist with a degree in Literature who lives and works in Italy. Since 2005 she has embarked on an intense and constant dialogue with art, developing a painting practice deeply rooted in the physical and existential investigation of the human being through the tools of figurative painting. Self-taught artist since childhood, Sandra Chinelate brings to her creative practice a sensitivity nurtured also by humanistic training and her sociolinguistic gaze. Having moved to Italy, she has oriented her research toward the representation of humanity in its multiple expressions, promoting an ideal meeting between individuals and different realities. In her works, age, skin colors, passions, fragility, and questions of existence coexist, observed with respect and returned without prejudice. Her painting is born from the desire to exalt the infinite facets of the human being, giving dignity and depth to every subject depicted. With equal dedication she focuses on the study of detail, light, and perspective—elements that characterize her personal interpretation of hyperrealism, an expressive language in which she has specialized since her first artistic experiments. Since 2005 she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, working mainly with oil and mixed media on canvas and panel. For the catalog of one of her most important solo exhibitions, the Roman art critic Lea Mattarella dedicated a meaningful review to the artist, concluding with these words: “And if there is pain, if there is effort, Chinelate takes to heart the words of Rumi, the medieval Sufi poet, convinced that ‘the wound is the point from which light can enter inside you.’” This vision seems to thread through Sandra Chinelate’s entire poetics: the light that emerges from vulnerability becomes the principle through which the artist interprets the human soul and the world of objects. In her works, people and things share the same balance of importance and order, taking part in a visual narrative that celebrates the complexity of existence and the possibility of transforming every experience into awareness and beauty.
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Title: UNVEILED
Oil painting on canvas
No frame
Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
Year: 2026
With certificate of authenticity
Signed at bottom left
The side profiles, wide and fully painted, together with the hanging hook already applied, make the work immediately ready to hang, without the need for a frame.
Instagram: @sandrachinelate

In Unveiled, the dialogue between nature and artifice translates into a reflection on the dialectic between presence and absence. The opened walnut and the ancient nutcracker, suspended in a dimension of silent contemplation, transform the act of opening into an act of revelation, in which emptiness gains expressive value and the mystery remains beyond what is offered to the gaze.

Sandra Chinelate is an Italian-Brazilian artist, trained in Literature, who finds in hyperrealist painting the privileged language of her research. Self-taught since childhood, she develops a painting sensibility based on meticulous observation of reality, exploring light, matter, transparency and depth through a technique capable of returning subjects with an extraordinary visual presence.
Her research focuses on the precision of detail and the perceptual complexity of things, transforming objects and compositions into visually intense experiences. Through refined balances of light, color and perspective, Chinelate investigates what the everyday eye often overlooks, revealing hidden beauty in the texture of surfaces and in the relationship between shapes, volumes and reflections.
Having moved to Italy, she continues a personal artistic path, where the technical rigor of hyperrealism intertwines with a deep aesthetic sensitivity. She works mainly with oil paints and mixed media on canvas and board.
Since 2005 she has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows.
Her works are visible on Instagram: @sandrachinelate

Seller's Story

Sandra Chinelate is an Italian-Brazilian artist with a degree in Literature who lives and works in Italy. Since 2005 she has embarked on an intense and constant dialogue with art, developing a painting practice deeply rooted in the physical and existential investigation of the human being through the tools of figurative painting. Self-taught artist since childhood, Sandra Chinelate brings to her creative practice a sensitivity nurtured also by humanistic training and her sociolinguistic gaze. Having moved to Italy, she has oriented her research toward the representation of humanity in its multiple expressions, promoting an ideal meeting between individuals and different realities. In her works, age, skin colors, passions, fragility, and questions of existence coexist, observed with respect and returned without prejudice. Her painting is born from the desire to exalt the infinite facets of the human being, giving dignity and depth to every subject depicted. With equal dedication she focuses on the study of detail, light, and perspective—elements that characterize her personal interpretation of hyperrealism, an expressive language in which she has specialized since her first artistic experiments. Since 2005 she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, working mainly with oil and mixed media on canvas and panel. For the catalog of one of her most important solo exhibitions, the Roman art critic Lea Mattarella dedicated a meaningful review to the artist, concluding with these words: “And if there is pain, if there is effort, Chinelate takes to heart the words of Rumi, the medieval Sufi poet, convinced that ‘the wound is the point from which light can enter inside you.’” This vision seems to thread through Sandra Chinelate’s entire poetics: the light that emerges from vulnerability becomes the principle through which the artist interprets the human soul and the world of objects. In her works, people and things share the same balance of importance and order, taking part in a visual narrative that celebrates the complexity of existence and the possibility of transforming every experience into awareness and beauty.
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Details

Sold with frame
No
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Edition
Original
Artist
Sandra Chinelate
Title of artwork
UNVEILED
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Italy
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
40 cm
Width
40 cm
Depiction/theme
Still life
Style
Hyperrealism
Period
2020+
ItalyVerified
52
Objects sold
100%
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