Tita do Rêgo Silva
Tita do Rêgo Silva (* 1959 in Caxias , Maranhão , Brazil ) is a visual artist who lives in Hamburg and works primarily with the woodcut technique . She also makes installations.
Life
After studying tourism from 1977 to 1980 at the private higher education institution União Pioneira da Integração Social (UPIS) in Brasília , she studied art at the University of Brasília from 1985 to 1988 . Since 1988 she has been working as a freelance artist in Hamburg.
Her small and large woodcuts often show slender, long-legged human beings , mostly communicating with one another, often dancing. Viewers are often reminded of rock carvings, cave drawings with their depictions of deer and goat demons, dancing shamans and the devils and gods of the syncretic Brazilian cults. Most of the beings are happy, playful and dancing. Often animals also play in the scene. She usually designs her woodcuts in color.
The artist consciously developed her current style as a return to her Brazilian roots. She describes her home region in Brazil as a very Catholic area in which religious stories and myths are not only very much alive, but are also perceived as reality by the people. For many people these stories are true and the beings are part of reality. This fantastic reality and its colorfulness as well as the real colors and liveliness of the area and the people are the inspiration of their creations. The mixed human beings and the devils are pure fantasy products of the artist and are not assigned to any particular characters in the popular stories and mythologies of their homeland. The artist does not give her works a title because she does not want to shape the reactions of people, their communication with the picture.
The artist has her studio in Koppel 66, House for Art and Crafts, a former machine factory in St. Georg an der Koppel, which has housed twelve workshops and studios, a vegetarian café and the GEDOK art forum since 1981.
The book Childhood by the author Peggy Parnass , which she designed , was named one of the “25 most beautiful books of the year” by the Book Art Foundation in 2013 .
Exhibitions
Since 1989 the book artist has exhibited in numerous German and foreign private galleries, as well as in municipal art institutions. Since 1999 she has been represented at all editions of the North German hand press fair "BuchDruckKunst" in the Hamburg Museum of Work , u. a. also in group exhibitions such as the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz .
Publications
- 1990 A costume for the earth, children's book, text by Hinnerk Schmidt, book printing art, edition of 90
- 1991 Altona is on the Amazon, book project with Artur Dieckhoff
- Altona lies on the Amazon, expedition box, edition 40
- 1992 Ex-Votos, letterpress art, edition of 5
- Why did Klaus Störtebeker discover America ?, folder, edition of 15
- 1992 Ex-Votos, letterpress art, edition of 5
- Why did Klaus Störtebeker discover America ?, folder, edition of 15
- 1993 Art forays, artist portrait - 15 min. NDR 3 broadcast on November 14, 1993
- Children make books, art campaign by ForumBookArt, Fabrik, Hamburg
- 1994 A costume for the earth, 6 min. Animated film for Die Sendung mit der Maus, SWF
- From the miracle of the birds, letterpress - text by Jorge Amado , edition 50
- 1995 Toi Toi Toi, by A. Dieckhoff, woodcuts for the cartoon + catalog
- 1996 Sala dos Milagres, Leporello book, edition 11
- 1997 Childhood Stories - How a Picture Is Made, 30 min. Documentary. Core TV
- 1998 The election of the devil and the inauguration of Lampião in hell, text by J. Silva, book printing, edition 125
- Tita do Rêgo Silva, work catalog
- Thank you Johannes, book project for 600 years of J. Gutenberg
- 2001 Childhood Tales, 45 m - woodcut frieze, Marienkrankenhaus Hamburg
- 2003 A Faca, illustrations for the book by R. Correia de Brito-Kosac & Naify
- Exu's world, cassette, letterpress, edition of 15
- The St. Georg book, book project with the 4th grade of the Marien Schule, edition 60
- 2005 HOLZWEG, book art project
- Tita do Rêgo Silva, work catalog
- 2007 A festival in heaven, text by Tita do Rêgo Silva, letterpress, edition of 65
- 2009 Apoll and Dafne, text by LCHölty, letterpress, edition: 50
- 2010 A love story, text by Artur Schütt, book printing, edition of 21
- 2011 La vida desatenta de Miguel Hernandez, book printing, edition of 7
- ABC spring, text by Tilla Lingenberg, book printing project, edition of 90 copies.
- Tita do Rêgo Silva, catalog of works
- 2012 Childhood, text by Peggy Parnass , book printing, awarded in June 2013 by the Stiftung Buchkunst as one of the 25 most beautiful books of the year.
- 2013 Grande Sertão: veredas, text by João Guimarães Rosa , letterpress, unique
- Sertão Travessia Amor, artist's book based on Guimarães Rosa, edition of 3
- NDR 3 talk show on June 7, 2013 with Tita do Rêgo Silva and Peggy Parnass.
- 2014 KINDHEIT, In the series with the blue ribbon, the reproduced edition of Childhood appears with the ISBN 978-3-596-85672-5 in Verlag FISCHER KJB with the subtitle:
- How our mother saved us from the Nazis.
- 2016 Stefan Zweig - Quotes, letterpress, edition 19
- 10 years Noctalis, Das Fledermaus Museum, film by Luis do Rêgo Silva
- 2017 Stefan Zweig - Quotes 2, letterpress, edition of 21
- The girl with the red suitcase, anthology, net publisher
- 5 mini coloring books, book art edition of the handset workshop fly head
- FLUCHT, text by Armin Hosseine and Heike Schmidt, book printing, edition of 60
- Tita's coloring book, edition of 100
- 2018 Curious Kurzweil, anagrams and ABCs, text by T. Lingenberg, edition of 500
- Adança do Lili, children's book, text by Joseane Maia
- Familia KUH on a world tour, book printing, edition 11
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rêgo Silva, Tita do |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caxias , Maranhão, Brazil |