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Regina Silveira
Middle Class & Co., 1971Silkscreen on paper in 15 parts
25 x 18 7/8 in each (63.3 x 47.9 cm each)Edition of 25RS116Further images
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Middle Class & Co. (1971) consists of a set of 15 silkscreens created by Regina Silveira at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, along with a publication designed by Silveira and...Middle Class & Co. (1971) consists of a set of 15 silkscreens created by Regina Silveira at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, along with a publication designed by Silveira and produced and distributed by the Universidade de São Paulo. Silveira identifies this work as the origin of a newly developed printmaking aesthetic for her, elaborating that “The album Middle Class Company [Middle Class & Co.], with images of a large crowd of people … was, at the time, the beginning of a more consistent path—of graphic multimedia—toward what is better known as my production and initial work in São Paulo …”
Middle Class & Co. is also one of the first works by the artist that introduces a more political tone through its focus on the masses and reference to the working class. “When I returned to Brazil in 1973, constitutional rights were still suspended and denunciations, arrests, torture and a general sense of vulnerability continued to corrupt the realms of public and private life and work. Popular music, the theatre and the visual arts constantly responded to this situation with politically charged messages, although their content could not manifest itself freely but only in the form of highly poetic metaphors that often managed to avoid being censored. I think that the first pieces of mine to be really influenced by the political and social events of that period were the series of words [sic] made with the new graphic media of the 1970s. The images they feature were almost always critical representations, some focusing on political power and others on the media and urban deterioration. Even so, there is virtually nothing overtly political in these series because I always prefer to filter my images through irony.”
Provenance
Collection of the artistExhibitions
2017: No Século XXI - A Era dos Artistas, Museum of Contemporary Art São Paulo, University of São Paulo (MAC USP), Brazil
2013: Regina Silveira, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY
1978: Regina Silveira: Obra Gráfica 71—77, Pinacoteca do Instituto das Artes da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil -
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