Mundus Admirabilis e Outras Pragas (Mundus Admirabilis and Other Plagues) is the title and connecting thread bringing together the pieces of the new and most surprising series of works by artist Regina Silveira (1939, Porto Alegre, Brazil) in a solo exhibit at the Paulista Gallery, which remained open from November 8 to the middle of December 2008.
On this occasion, the works exhibited present a highly impacting aesthetic component that merged with Silveira’s proverbial taste for paradox and eclecticism. There are also in these works formal and stylistic citational elements, drawn from other “encyclopedias” and iconographic repertoires that helped Silveira to create a dis-verse diversity, aimed in multiple directions. At the same time, opposing elements would unify these through the magic and explosion of trompe l’oeil, as a post-conceptual chain of accurate interplays of whites and expansive blacks.
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