Thiago Rocha Pitta

Biography

b. 1980, Brazil

Lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Thiago Rocha Pitta’s temporal and sensitive body of work depicts interventions with the environment from his native Brazil. Through watercolours, photographs, sculpture, and video, Rocha Pitta focuses on small yet emotive elements of the natural world that are simultaneously ominous and melancholy. Driven by a preoccupation with the passage of time, particularly in natural settings, Rocha Pitta often manipulates the pace of his work, confronting his viewer with quiet, curious introspection and an open-­ended sense of longing.

Exhibitions with L V H
Selected Work
Ocean/Atlas Polyptych (2), 2015 12 C-prints 15 1/8 x 25 5/16 in | 38 x 64 cm Overall dims: 45 1/2 x 101 1/2 in | 368 x 257 cm Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof
Sketches for sultriness, 2008 Watercolor on paper Left sheet: 18 1/2 x 13 3/8 in | 47 x 34 cm Middle and right sheet: 23 x 15 3/4 in | 58.5 x 40 cm
Ocean/Atlas, 2014 Inkjet print 42 1/2 x 52 3/8 in | 108 x 133 cm Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof