Regina Silveira
Desaparencia (Taller)
Fabiola Torres-Alzaga
Porta-infinitos
SALA DE ARTE PUBLICO SIQUEIROS
Tres Picos #29, Polanco
C.P. 11590, Mexico City
+52 (55) 5531 3394
Visiting hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10-18 hrs
www.siqueiros.inba.gob.mx/
Desaparencia (Taller)
Regina Silveira
For some years now, the work of Regina Silveira has approached fundamental aspects of representation, such as anamorfosis. The study and parodic use of the basic principles of Descriptive Geometry-perspective and shadow theory-as well as intelligent references to Marcel Duchamp’s work are a few of the elements of which this artist takes drawing to the fields of installation and sculpture. Beyond referencing art history and the nature of the image, Silveira is capable of accomplishing enigmatic or metaphoric comments within her work allowing the viewer to reach the sphere of metaphysics or politics.
Porta-infinitos
Fabiola Torres-Alzaga
The same day, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga will present three of her Porta-infinitos in the Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros’ Reading Rooom. These Porta-infinitos are suitcases which after being unfolded, transform into optical devices for personal use. The produced effect consists in an altered visual perception radically different to that which actually exists in the users’ surroundings. Torres-Alzaga’s work proposes a reflection upon the relationship between art and magic, in so far as both disciplines belong to the field of illusion. As the artist herself expresses, “magic is the possibility of breaking everyday logic, of fiction and reality at the same time; it makes possible the impossible.” In the case of the Porta-infinitos, this possibility stems from a reflection on the real and the visible.
Regina Silveira (1939, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil). Studied Fine Arts at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil in 1959. She earned both an MA and a PhD from the Escola de Comunicacoes e Artes da Universidade do Sao Paulo, SP, Brasil in 1980 and 1984 respectively. Silveira has presented individual exhibitions and has participated in many group shows, among many others: Claraluz, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2003), A Licao, Galeria Brito Cimino, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2002), Arte/Cidade, Sesc Beienziho, Sao Paulo, Brasil (2002), Brasil: Body and Soul, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2001), Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South American Drawing, Museo del Barrio, New York, USA (1997).
Fabiola Torres-Alzaga (Mexico City, 1978) earned a BA degree in Fine Arts from the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” (ENPEG). Currently a recipient of the Jovenes Creadores del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) grant. Since 2002 she works with Ximena Cuevas in the F/X collective.
Her work has been shown in several group shows in Mexico and abroad, among these: Cooperativa de arte en video, Museo Tamayo, Mexico DF (2003). NO ESCAPE/ MEDIA DISSONANCE, Ocularis, New York, USA, (2003). Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany, (2004). X años, La Esmeralda en el CENART, Galeria Central del Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, (2004).
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