Adolfo Montejo Navas ///
Beyond the White Cube. Strategies-drawings-interventions by Regina Silveira

Art’s intense relationship with architecture did not start today. It is enough to recall the way that different mediums were incorporated throughout history: sculpture, for example, present in Greek temples, in Romanic churches or in Gothic cathedrals; or painting done on inside or outside spaces of palaces, chapels etc. in the context of history of the West. To some extent we might say that until the middle of the XV century architecture and the other arts not only lived alongside each other but the importance of the former was highlighted. Architecture was the place and the destination, and the fundamenting of the whole work. This chimera union of the arts becomes impossible from the middle of the XIX century on, and all the more independent expressions start to work on their own. On the other hand, the relationship of functionality of this discipline (spaces for use, dwellings, etc.) becomes removed from the proclaimed linguistic autonomy of the plastic arts. Thus it is very significant that artists nowadays are tending to work in relation to architecture, to the spaces that are beyond the white cube – its visual purity – that is so mythified by modernity.