Regina Frank The HeArt Is Present

Regina Frank The HeArt Is Present

DailyDiscipline - DailyDrawing, 2020, April/May, Fotografia/Instalação/Online, Projeto @theheartispresent_dailydrawing, 91 x 199 cm

Preço: €2 200 (valor das três obras juntas)

Regina Frank The HeArt Is Present

DailyDiscipline - DailyDrawing, 2020, April/May, Fotografia/Instalação/Online, Projeto @theheartispresent_dailydrawing, 91 x 199 cm

Preço €: 2 200 (valor das três obras juntas)

Regina Frank The HeArt Is Present

DailyDiscipline - DailyDrawing, 2020, April/May, Fotografia/Instalação/Online, Projeto @theheartispresent_dailydrawing, 91 x 199 cm

Preço €: 2 200 (valor das três obras juntas)

Regina Frank relates in her work to issues of sustainability during the current COVID19 Lockdown. The piece reflects her daily practice and health-keeping routines such as painting and drawing as an artist, but it also includes her daily meals (artwork #2) as well as her discovery of nature around her, mainly plants or flower arrangements (artwork # 3). Every day Frank posts one drawing or painting, a dish and a flower in her Instagram accounts: TheHeartIsPresent_DailyDraw, one dish in TheHeartIsPresent_DailyDish, and one flower arrangement or blossom in TheHeartIsPresent_DailyDelight. The analog version of the piece is a triptych featuring the project in its complexity as a daily process would be exhibited. The book containing the entire ongoing project can be ordered on-line as an art-piece in itself.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Regina Frank has exhibited her work in Europe, the US, and Asia, including, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the MOCA in Los Angeles, the Cultural Olympics in Atlanta, the Spiral Wacoal Art Center in Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Chienku University of Technology in China, Expo 2000 and UNESCO in Paris. In 2017, she developed Slowdown Runway for London Artfair with Brian Eno and Beezy Bailey. Her most recent project iLAND was exhibited MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology) in Lisbon, the Kunsthalle Hannover, TheNewArtFest18, Websummit 2018, Tracey Emin’s project in the VIP lounge at Frieze Artfair London and TheNewArtFest MUNHAC (Natural History Museum), Lisbon, BioArt 2018, Seoul Korea and iLAND SilentScience in the Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon. Regina Frank’s work, which combines text, technology, and textile, has been featured since the early 1990s in several history books, art magazines, newspapers, as well as at Vogue, Harpers, Parade, and Cosmopolitan, in Sculpture Magazine and AvantArt, FAZ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, YALE UNIVERSITY RADIO, FRESH ART INTERNATIONAL, and the OBSERVADOR. Her work is in numerous private and museum collections, such as the San Diego Museum of Art and the Deutsche Bank Collection.

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THREE QUESTIONS TO REGINA FRANK

ANTÓNIO CERVEIRA PINTO — as an artist what meaning does the word art have for you?

REGINA FRANK — Art for me has to touch my heart. If it doesn't touch me in some way I prefer to pass. Still, I see a lot of art shows on a regular basis. I scan them until I stop at something. It can take me three hours to go through a museum and two hours just to sit in front of a Monet that I didn't know. 

ACP — in the river of sensations where all merchandise, including merchandise-information, is wrapped in shapes that appeal to the senses - seductive, sensual, and intelligent forms - is it still possible to highlight a genuine work of art?

R — Yes absolutely. I still discover the fantastic work of young artists and old alike. The other day I was in a Yayoi Kusama show and was just blown away. Regina Jose Galindo's performances, El Anatsui's sculptural paintings, the silent sensitive work of Anne Wilson... Louise Bourgeois... there are so many talented artists out there that literally can change your view and leave you stunned. I went climbing in Tomás Saraceno - in orbit. I went there 5 times for several hours and explored the installation lying there climbing. 

ACP — Instagram and social networks, in general, placed the image, representation, and mirror at the top of the global imagination.  They provided everyone with a kind of quick training in creativity and art, making each of us automatic artists.  In this living virtual museum, what is, once again, the place of art?

R — I mean once you stand in front of it 

Art enriches my life. Instagram can only reflect a memory of art and build networks of art that you feel like checking out in reality later. It will never replace my experiences to see actual work placed next to each other and exploring installations making my own connections with the artists' creation. The digital can't replace what I can touch and walk around.

>> Manuel Casimiro