Itta

Several first prizes, certificates and recognitions.

CRITIC
"Imagine great blows of pencil on a canevas, interlacings which in parallel run the ones to the others, and which end up meeting in ball as these cables which trail in her atelier ventilated and luminous (...) Then the hanks are untied at the top of the painting and fall down in cascade to form human features: the pout of the lips, the expression of the face, the wink, the wearing of head, the whole carefully and sensually (...) Her viatique of globe trotter, it is a little bag hand made containing a small notebook with drawings and a handle of pencils. She uses about it like a camera or like a recorder , observing people of the corner of her eye, without disturbing. She awaits the catch (without him... no drawing) then she draws with a pencil the eyes rivetted on the subject, the hand as endowed with an own life. With the return, there remain layers covered with what an not-informed public could take for gribouillis and, all at the bottom of her memory, thousands of visual, tactile, olfactive impressions which will grow until reaching dimensions of a painting. A little as a photographer who develops his film, tallies and improves his negative and increases. The brush of Itta runs like her pencil and the oil colours play Indian ink." (at the time of an exposure to Hilton Gallery in Brussels).

THE ARTIST
Born in Brussels in 1951 and lives in Brussels.
Painter, sculptor en photograph.
Parallel to an evolution as an autodidact, Itta followed multiple formations: structure of interior, publicity & photography, painting and drawing, size of the blue stone .

L’ARTISTE
Née (1951) et vit à Bruxelles/Belgique.
Peintre, sculpteur et photographe. En plus de ses propres recherches picturales, Itta a suivi plusieurs formations : architecte d'intérieur, publicité & photographie, dessin & peinture et travail de la pierre bleue.

DE ARTIESTE
Geboren (1951) en wonende in Brussel/België.
Schilderes, beeldhouwster en fotografe. Naast permanente zelfstudie heeft Itta verschillende opleidingen gevolgd : binnenhuisarchitectuur, publiciteit, fotografie, schilderkunst en bewerking van blauwsteen

I T T A “INTER LINEAS”

WORK
In the tradition of the painters of street, Itta constantly walks with, under the arm, a notebook of sketch which fills at an astonishing speed. Drafts, movements, frays of features and curves are added in a series with moments stolen at the time which passes. These transitory moments thus preserve all the force of their authenticity, on paper but more still in the spirit of the artist. In her atelier, with different media, Itta extracts then quintessence from her innumerable sketches to lead to an increased composition which magnifie the moment, the movement, the attitude and feelings. Work on the line, the matter and the shades which is carried out in an atmosphere of luminous intimacy. Handling the color with an extreme wisdom, she can decline about it the most subtle nuances. Bathed music, her painting is also the satisfaction of a pleasure which she likes to share. It is a communion with the world which surrounds her and gives some a clear and deeply human image, in a style at the same time vigorous and full with softness.

To consult her book :
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Small atelier very luminous, gives on a lot of gardens, without opposite and quiet.
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