Lot 173: REGINA VATER (B. 1943)

REGINA VATER (B. 1943) TINA AMERICA signed, titled and dated S. Paolo, July '76 lower left 12 photographic black and white prints by Maria da Garça Lopes Rodrigues of the performance Tina America (June 27, 1976) 14 3/4 by 14 5/8 in. 37.5 by 37 cm

Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo Museum of Modern Art, 1976 (artist book with photographs)
Buenos Aires, Centro de Artes y Comunicaciones, 1977, (illustration of an artist book with photographs)
New York, C-Space Gallery, 1978 (artist book with photographs)
New York, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts Gallery, Safe, 2006, (artist book with photographs)

Acquired from the artist by the previous owner
Collection of Carol Newman, Maryland

I consider this one of my seminal works because I did this piece in 1975 prior to the work of Cindy Sherman that only started in 1977. "Tina America" was a kind of companion work to my first film installation "The Advice from a Caterpillar" that I first show in New York in 1977 in the C-Space , gallery of Mrs. Marina Urbach.



Tina America was shown several times in different places such as at in my one-woman show at the Museum of Modern Art Rio 1975-76. at in my one-woman show at the Museum of Brazilian Art Sao Paulo 1976. CAYC Buenos Aires 1976. In the early eighties in Americas Society by invitation of his director John Stringer.





Regina Vater 2010