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Regina Silveira

Unrealized / Não feito

June 6–July 26, 2019

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito​

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito​
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito

Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito
Installation view
Alexander Gray Associates (2019)

Model for Reflexus (Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil), 1985

Model for Reflexus (Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil), 1985
Industrial paint, screen print, and wood
5.25h x 39.25w x 17.63d in (13.34h x 99.70w x 44.77d cm)

Preparatory drawing for Reflexus (Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil), 1985

Preparatory drawing for Reflexus (Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil), 1985
Ink and pencil on graph paper
25.50h x 19.75w in (64.77h x 50.17w cm)

Preparatory drawing for Reflexus (Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil), 1985

Preparatory drawing for Reflexus (Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil), 1985
Ink and pencil on graph paper
25.50h x 19.75w in (64.77h x 50.17w cm)

Preparatory drawing for Reflexus (Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil), 1985

Preparatory drawing for Reflexus (Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil), 1985
Ink and pencil on graph paper
25.50h x 19.75w in (64.77h x 50.17w cm)

Model for Supersonic Goal (Pacaembu Stadium, São Paulo, Brazil), 2004

Model for Supersonic Goa(Pacaembu Stadium, São Paulo, Brazil), 2004
Enamel, adhesive vinyl, paper, and wood
10.25h x 33.63w x 21d in (26.04h x 85.41w x 53.34d cm)

Digital rendering for Supersonic Goal (Pacaembu Stadium, São Paulo, Brazil), 2004

Digital rendering for Supersonic Goal (Pacaembu Stadium, São Paulo, Brazil), 2004

Digital rendering for Supersonic Goal (Pacaembu Stadium, São Paulo, Brazil), 2004

Digital rendering for Supersonic Goal (Pacaembu Stadium, São Paulo, Brazil), 2004

Model for Animália (Metrô Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil), 2001, Ink, digital print, adhesive vinyl, acrylic, and wood

Model for Animália (Metrô Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil), 2001

Ink, digital print, adhesive vinyl, acrylic, and wood

13.75h x 56.25w x 29d in (34.93h x 142.88w x 73.66d cm)

Digital rendering for Animália (Metrô Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil), 2001

Digital rendering for Animália (Metrô Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil), 2001

Digital rendering for Animália (Metrô Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil), 2001

Digital rendering for Animália (Metrô Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil), 2001

Digital rendering for Animália (Metrô Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil), 2001

Digital rendering for Animália (Metrô Vila Madalena, São Paulo, Brazil), 2001

Preparatory renderings for Iluminada (Barrio Las Aguas, Bogotá, Colombia), 2015/2019

Preparatory renderings for Iluminada (Barrio Las Aguas, Bogotá, Colombia), 2015/2019

Digital rendering for Stray Bullet (Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany), 2018/2019

Digital rendering for Stray Bullet (Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany), 2018/2019

Digital rendering for Double II (Alexander Gray Associates, New York), 2019

Digital rendering for Double II (Alexander Gray Associates, New York), 2019

Model for All Nights (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico), 1999

Model for All Nights (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico), 1999
Wood, enamel, and styrofoam
7.50h x 31.50w x 8.75d in (19.05h x 80.01w x 22.23d cm)

 Digital rendering for All Nights (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico), 1999


Digital rendering for All Nights (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico), 1999
 

Model for Wild Elevator (Centro Universitário Maria Antônia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), 2016/2019

Model for Wild Elevator (Centro Universitário Maria Antônia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), 2016/2019
Acrylic, digital print, adhesive vinyl, and wood
29.50h x 11.88w x 11.88d in (74.93h x 30.16w x 30.16d cm)

Digital rendering for Wild Elevator (Centro Universitário Maria Antônia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), 2016/2019

Digital rendering for Wild Elevator (Centro Universitário Maria Antônia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil), 2016/2019

Model for Bronx Borough Center Library, New York, 2003, Enamel, acrylic, adhesive vinyl, and wood

Model for Bronx Borough Center Library, New York, 2003

Enamel, acrylic, adhesive vinyl, and wood

20.50h x 46.63w x 29.38d in (52.07h x 118.43w x 74.61d cm)

Preparatory drawing for Stairs into Space (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003

Preparatory drawing for Stairs into Space (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003
Mixed media on collaged graph paper
18.25h x 36w in (46.36h x 91.44w cm)

Preparatory drawing for Paving the Way (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003, Mixed media on collaged graph paper

Preparatory drawing for Paving the Way (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003

Mixed media on collaged graph paper

19.75h x 39.81w in (50.17h x 101.12w cm)

Preparatory studies for Paving the Way (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003/2019

Preparatory studies for Paving the Way (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003/2019

Preparatory studies for Paving the Way (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003/2019

Preparatory studies for Paving the Way (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003/2019

Preparatory studies for Stairs into Space (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003/2019

Preparatory studies for Stairs into Space (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003/2019

Digital rendering for Reading in the Sky (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003/2019

Digital rendering for Reading in the Sky (Bronx Borough Center Library, New York), 2003/2019

Model for Clouds (Santa Maria Novella Station, Florence, Italy), 2012/2019, Acrylic, digital print, adhesive vinyl, and wood

Model for Clouds (Santa Maria Novella Station, Florence, Italy), 2012/2019

Acrylic, digital print, adhesive vinyl, and wood

16.38h x 29.13w x 21.25d in (41.59h x 73.98w x 53.98d cm)

 

Studies for Clouds (Santa Maria Novella Station, Florence, Italy), 2012/2019

Studies for Clouds (Santa Maria Novella Station, Florence, Italy), 2012/2019

Press Release

Alexander Gray Associates presented an exhibition of ten unrealized projects by multidisciplinary artist Regina Silveira. Emphasizing Silveira’s ongoing formal experimentation and conceptual interventions in architecture, the works on view provide an overview of site-specific installations and public art projects that were never realized in physical space. Regina Silveira: Unrealized / Não feito is the Gallery’s fifth solo presentation of Silveira’s work, and celebrates a decade since her first Gallery exhibition in 2009.

A pioneering figure in Brazilian art, for over five decades Silveira has utilized surprise and illusion as methodologies for the destabilization of perspective and reality. Silveira began her career in the 1950s under the tutelage of expressionist Brazilian painter Iberê Camargo, studying lithography and woodcut, as well as painting. In the 1970s, Silveira experimented with printmaking and video, spearheading a movement of radical artistic production during a time of military repression in Brazil. Since the 1980s, Silveira has executed numerous large-scale installations in libraries, public plazas, roadways, parks, museum facades, public transit centers, and other institutional sites. The works on view in Unrealized / Não feito offer a unique glimpse into Silveira’s process and methodology and catalyze possibilities for future experimentation.

Developed in many cases with detailed schematics, preparatory drawings, digital renderings, and physical models, all of the projects in the exhibition encapsulate the artist’s ongoing engagement with the distortion of space. Perception, for Silveira, is a malleable playing field, in which the artist’s imagination plays a critical role. Informed in part by the democratic virtues of horizontal pedagogy, she focuses on the ways in which the public uses common spaces. Most of her large-scale installations are temporary, highlighting ephemerality and reproducibility in her use of materials.

The exhibition features projects that span more than three decades and expansive geographies. Ahead of her time in her use of technology, Silveira began to utilize plotter-cut vinyl and other digital means in the 1990s as flexible materials that allow for large-scale architectural interventions. In All Nights (1999), Silveira fractures light and casts imaginary shadows throughout the interior architecture of El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico. Conceived for the the plaza rotunda of a busy thoroughfare in Bogotá, Colombia, in Iluminada (2015), Silveira interrupts the urban landscape with a labyrinth and digital waterfall, displayed as animations on three curved LED panels. A soccer ball, imagined as a planetary body in orbit, cascades down the bleachers of the Pacaembu Soccer Stadium in Supersonic Goal (2004). In Stray Bullet (2018), a large-large-scale vinyl appliqué on the facade of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany suggests the illusion of glass punctured and shattered by a firing gun––alluding to gun violence in Brazil, as well as the fragility of the site for which it was envisioned. In Clouds (2001), blue and white threads of vinyl appear as if embroidered in cross-stitch over the glass ceiling of Florence’s Santa Maria Novella train station.