Cristine Balarine - A private cathedral for the rituals of the land _ XL large abstract painting
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Cristine Balarine presents an original acrylic painting titled A private cathedral for the rituals of the land, 150 by 100 cm, hand signed, dated 2025, in an abstract Expressionist palette that invites contemplative display.
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ABOUT THE PAINTING:
The act of painting is, at times, an act of excavation. Layers of memory, history, and personal mythology converge on the surface, forming something both deeply intimate and expansive. In A Private Cathedral for the Rituals of the Land, this process unfolds as a meditation on belonging—a physical and emotional return to the shifting terrain of identity.
The work resists the rigidity of imposed structures, instead embracing a fluid, organic motion that challenges the very notion of fixed borders—geographical, historical, and psychological. The forms that emerge are simultaneously geometric and unruly, expanding and retracting as if caught in a perpetual state of negotiation. There is an inherent friction here: between discipline and instinct, the familiar and the unknown, the act of remembering and the inevitable process of transformation.
Throughout, the land is not a passive entity, nor a mere backdrop to human presence. It is a force, resisting containment, asserting its own rhythms. In this space of tension, the work asks: how does one truly inhabit a landscape that is always in flux? Can we ever fully reclaim what was lost, or do we continuously reinvent the terms of our own belonging?
What emerges is a kind of ritual—a way of communing with history, of tracing the contours of identity through pigment and form. The painting becomes not just an object, but a site of reimagination, where the past and present blur into something yet to be defined.
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Original, one-of-a-kind abstract painting
Size: 150x100cm (before stretching)
Medium: acrylics and pastels on raw cotton canvas
Ready to hang: no, ships rolled and needs to be re-stretched by your local framer*
Signature: verso, also signed Certificate
Year: 2025
Finish: silky varnish with UV protection
Shipping: in a professionally packaged tube
* Shipping extra large formats rolled is safer and more environmentally friendly than shipping ready-to-hang works. The canvas can be easily re-stretched by a framer at your location, which in most cases is even much cheaper than the increased transport costs for a ready-to-hang painting. If you'd like a comparison quote for shipping ready-to-hang please contact me.
Hot framing tip from the artist: use 2cm deep stretcher bars with reinforcements for minimum loss of painting area with the fold in the back. If a 2cm stretcher bar is used, the final size of the painting will be 144x94cm.
Seller's Story
Cristine Balarine is a contemporary Brazilian artist based in the Aeolian Islands, Sicily. With a Master’s degree in Architecture from The Bartlett, UCL and a foundation in Florentine Renaissance art history, her multidisciplinary background informs a practice grounded in abstraction, material exploration and spatial deconstruction. Drawing on her Indigenous, African, and European heritage and shaped by life on a remote Sicilian island, Balarine’s work explores the entangled relationships between land, memory and identity, subverting figurative representations of urban and natural realms to reveal lyrical and unreliable narratives of landscapes both distant and familiar.
Balarine’s work has been presented internationally, including a charity exhibition and auction at S otheby’s London in 2024, curated by Dr. Madeleine Haddon of the Victoria and Albert Museum. She was the first prize winner of ArtBAM, a competition run by the Munich-based gallery Konsum 163. Finalist in both the London and Florence Biennials in 2023, she has also participated in key global art events such as World Art Dubai and Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair. Her solo exhibitions have been showcased at the Lighthouse Museum in Sicily and at her artist-led gallery in the Aeolian Islands.
Her collaborative practice spans visual art, sound and performance, frequently engaging with musicians and DJs to create cross-disciplinary installations and live interventions. Her ongoing project with OWN! Collective, Fault Lines, brings painting into dialogue with music, forming immersive, synaesthetic spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries between visual and auditory perception.
www. cristinebalarineart .com
ABOUT THE PAINTING:
The act of painting is, at times, an act of excavation. Layers of memory, history, and personal mythology converge on the surface, forming something both deeply intimate and expansive. In A Private Cathedral for the Rituals of the Land, this process unfolds as a meditation on belonging—a physical and emotional return to the shifting terrain of identity.
The work resists the rigidity of imposed structures, instead embracing a fluid, organic motion that challenges the very notion of fixed borders—geographical, historical, and psychological. The forms that emerge are simultaneously geometric and unruly, expanding and retracting as if caught in a perpetual state of negotiation. There is an inherent friction here: between discipline and instinct, the familiar and the unknown, the act of remembering and the inevitable process of transformation.
Throughout, the land is not a passive entity, nor a mere backdrop to human presence. It is a force, resisting containment, asserting its own rhythms. In this space of tension, the work asks: how does one truly inhabit a landscape that is always in flux? Can we ever fully reclaim what was lost, or do we continuously reinvent the terms of our own belonging?
What emerges is a kind of ritual—a way of communing with history, of tracing the contours of identity through pigment and form. The painting becomes not just an object, but a site of reimagination, where the past and present blur into something yet to be defined.
.
Original, one-of-a-kind abstract painting
Size: 150x100cm (before stretching)
Medium: acrylics and pastels on raw cotton canvas
Ready to hang: no, ships rolled and needs to be re-stretched by your local framer*
Signature: verso, also signed Certificate
Year: 2025
Finish: silky varnish with UV protection
Shipping: in a professionally packaged tube
* Shipping extra large formats rolled is safer and more environmentally friendly than shipping ready-to-hang works. The canvas can be easily re-stretched by a framer at your location, which in most cases is even much cheaper than the increased transport costs for a ready-to-hang painting. If you'd like a comparison quote for shipping ready-to-hang please contact me.
Hot framing tip from the artist: use 2cm deep stretcher bars with reinforcements for minimum loss of painting area with the fold in the back. If a 2cm stretcher bar is used, the final size of the painting will be 144x94cm.
Seller's Story
Cristine Balarine is a contemporary Brazilian artist based in the Aeolian Islands, Sicily. With a Master’s degree in Architecture from The Bartlett, UCL and a foundation in Florentine Renaissance art history, her multidisciplinary background informs a practice grounded in abstraction, material exploration and spatial deconstruction. Drawing on her Indigenous, African, and European heritage and shaped by life on a remote Sicilian island, Balarine’s work explores the entangled relationships between land, memory and identity, subverting figurative representations of urban and natural realms to reveal lyrical and unreliable narratives of landscapes both distant and familiar.
Balarine’s work has been presented internationally, including a charity exhibition and auction at S otheby’s London in 2024, curated by Dr. Madeleine Haddon of the Victoria and Albert Museum. She was the first prize winner of ArtBAM, a competition run by the Munich-based gallery Konsum 163. Finalist in both the London and Florence Biennials in 2023, she has also participated in key global art events such as World Art Dubai and Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair. Her solo exhibitions have been showcased at the Lighthouse Museum in Sicily and at her artist-led gallery in the Aeolian Islands.
Her collaborative practice spans visual art, sound and performance, frequently engaging with musicians and DJs to create cross-disciplinary installations and live interventions. Her ongoing project with OWN! Collective, Fault Lines, brings painting into dialogue with music, forming immersive, synaesthetic spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries between visual and auditory perception.
www. cristinebalarineart .com
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Artist
Cristine Balarine
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
A private cathedral for the rituals of the land _ XL large abstract painting
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of Origin
Italy
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Black, Blue, Brown, Green, Multicolour, Orange, Purple, White, Yellow
Height
100 cm
Width
150 cm
Weight
1 kg
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Period
2020+
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