Degree Zero 2023
the DEGREE ZERO of all things “…a way of certain silence has of existing; it deliberately foregoes any elegance or ornament” On a ...
One-Way Street 2022
Suspend, feel, look The “Rua de mão única” installation is a project that Catarina Pinto Leite has been developing for several years. ...
Attic 2017
“I distribute these images In front of me, as if upon a terrace. Around the edge of the porch, the light with its enormous weight ...
in-ter-mit-ten-ce 2015
Catarina Pinto Leite has been showing her work at solo exhibitions since the mid-nineties and her artistic creation has focused mostly on painting. With remarkable ...
The world through a different window 2013
I became acquainted with the work of Catarina Pinto Leite in 2007, on the occasion of an exhibition in which she showed landscapes. Since then, ...
Forces of Nature 2010
Regarding the painting by Catarina Pinto Leite presented in this exhibit, one aspect which is immediately visible, and which holds great meaning, is that the ...
Bombart text 2009
Where am I right now, I wonder? “…I do landscapes with what I feel” said Fernando Pessoa. I often question myself, and am often questioned, ...
Inhospitable land 2009
Catarina Pinto Leite tells me that, for these paintings, she had in mind the tragedy that recently hit the Italian city of Aquila. In her ...
A smooth, silvery light 2007
Behind paintings, there are always stories. Often, artists hide them and take refuge in a silence particular to that world of shapes and colors where ...
Landscape is a State of Mind 2006
“A landscape can be a place of intimate restlessness”, where “light is reinvented as a brief brightness which irrupts unexpectedly from the reverse side of ...
Questioning night’s opacity 2003
A landscape can be a place of intimate restlessness, as told by the very personal nature of Catarina Pinto Leite’s paintings. Representation is then disconnected ...