Art: A Gift Forever
Text: Marcelo Lapola
Photos: Paulo Koelle
Translation by Walene Carrijo

Upon entering the home studio, one soon has the clear, nice sensation that in this place, art is breathed in the most pure meaning of the word. Wide spaces interspersed with sculptures, the majority of which are portraying the female
body and its infinite spatial possibilities, provides the observer with a picture
of the environment where this art is dreamed up and created, in the calm town
of Rio Claro, near São Paulo, the biggest city in South America.

Whether it is a studio in the home or being at home in the studio, as
the artist herself likes to define, her art is never disassociated from her
everyday life.

Perceptive and sensitive, Cris Koelle never detaches herself from the world
in order to conceive her sculptures and jewelry.

Her artistic style is full of multiple paradoxes, among them the deeply
profound lightness conceived using heavy materials such as metals and
resins. One of her best-known works is the figurine of a tiny brass woman
r esting on a goblet, which can also be used as a broach or necklace.
An artist by graduation and definition, Cris Koelle puts on her pieces of
art the grace, lightness and the intoxicating sensuality of the Brazilian woman.

Far beyond simple ornaments, full of concepts, Cris Koelle’s sculptures are
known in several countries for their delicacy and originality. Her website www.criskoelle.com receives visitors from all over the world looking for the originality of Brazilian works of art.

Cris Koelle’s career started in the early 1970’s, and nowadays she has customers worldwide - being mostly in Lisbon, Munich and New York.
She states that even when her pieces are ordered by companies and are
custom-made (many times as gifts for customers or recognition for
employees), she always uses her artistic intuition in the creation of them.

If one of the most important aspects of Art with a capital “A” is the
subversion of shapes and common gestures, with this Brazilian artist, this concept is enhanced to a great proportion, for her art goes against any
“common-place” ideas.

The “wearable art” by Cris Koelle balances the refined without being
indefinable, the common without becoming the obvious, and the
movement without exaggerating an impossible juggling.

Better than having Cris Koelle’s pieces within the reach of hands and eyes is to give or to receive them as a gift. For those who receive one of her sculptures, the experience is renewed at each glimpse, or in the artist’s own words “A gift forever”.

	Leaves
	Female
Sculpturs	Tower and Crowd
	Legs
	Fly
Objects
	Female	Rings Necklaces Bracelets
Wearable Art	Flowers
	Elements
	Jewelry