Cristine Balarine - Azul _ panel 1 of 2 _ XXL extra large original abstract painting
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Artist Cristine Balarine; Title Azul _ panel 1 of 2 _ XXL extra large original abstract painting; Technique acrylic painting; Edition Original; Year 2024.
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ABOUT THE PAINTING:
Azul celebrates the deep waters surrounding the Aeolian Islands in Sicily. It reflects on how certain landscapes—especially those we can’t fully see or know—continue to shape us. The sea here is not just a setting but a presence: beautiful, endless, and unknowable. There is something in the depth that pulls and unsettles, echoing an old, shared anthropological fascination for what lies beyond sight. After painting Azul, I swam out and looked down. For a few seconds underwater, I saw that same blue: still, vast, and out of reach. The work doesn’t try to explain it. It simply brings it back to a word—Azul—and leaves it there, open.
Please note that this lot is for one panel (panel 1) of the diptych. The other painting as seen in the images can be purchased separately with no extra cost for shipment together. Please see my other No Reserve paintings in my profile.
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Original, one-of-a-kind abstract painting by Cristine Balarine
Size: 150 x 60 cm - please note that this painting is panted to the edges, please allow for a fold of min 3cm on each side when stretching. The painting can be installed on horizontal or vertical orientation.
Medium: Acrylics, collage, pastels and watercolour pencils on raw canvas
Ships rolled in a tube, however framed option is available at extra charge.
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Original, one-of-a-kind abstract painting
Size: 150x60cm Unstretched
Medium: acrylics, oil sticks, inks 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.
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:
Azul celebrates the deep waters surrounding the Aeolian Islands in Sicily. It reflects on how certain landscapes—especially those we can’t fully see or know—continue to shape us. The sea here is not just a setting but a presence: beautiful, endless, and unknowable. There is something in the depth that pulls and unsettles, echoing an old, shared anthropological fascination for what lies beyond sight. After painting Azul, I swam out and looked down. For a few seconds underwater, I saw that same blue: still, vast, and out of reach. The work doesn’t try to explain it. It simply brings it back to a word—Azul—and leaves it there, open.
Please note that this lot is for one panel (panel 1) of the diptych. The other painting as seen in the images can be purchased separately with no extra cost for shipment together. Please see my other No Reserve paintings in my profile.
.
Original, one-of-a-kind abstract painting by Cristine Balarine
Size: 150 x 60 cm - please note that this painting is panted to the edges, please allow for a fold of min 3cm on each side when stretching. The painting can be installed on horizontal or vertical orientation.
Medium: Acrylics, collage, pastels and watercolour pencils on raw canvas
Ships rolled in a tube, however framed option is available at extra charge.
.
Original, one-of-a-kind abstract painting
Size: 150x60cm Unstretched
Medium: acrylics, oil sticks, inks 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.
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
Details
Artist
Cristine Balarine
Edition
Original
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Direct from the artist
Sold with frame
No
Title of artwork
Azul _ panel 1 of 2 _ XXL extra large original abstract painting
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of Origin
Italy
Year
2024
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Blue
Height
60 cm
Width
150 cm
Weight
1 kg
Depiction/Theme
Landscape
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Period
2020+
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