Inglês
Born in 1965, in Paraguay, daughter of Maria Amália Hornung and Ramón Avala, grew up to the sound of brazilian and paraguayan songs. When she had the oportunity, she would lean over the reproductions of the workmanships of the great geniuses of the dutch painting.
Her start in the artistic world was at the dawn of this century. The inspiration came when she opened a store of indigenous objects "MadreTierra. While examining the pieces produced by the tribes, noticed with sensitivity the cultural value in each work of various ethnic groups represented there. It was the moment of creation for her first artistic studies, to the plastic production.
Free of academic concepts, while producing her paintings and exhibiting them, composed a participant environment for customers, visitors and the Indians of the region, who attended her place. This coexistence aroused great admiration and interest in the redemption of our Aboriginal culture.
Inserting elements in her work, such as: mask, panache, rattle, clay containers, fabric, and still life composed of fruits, fish, that while mining, tried to recover the whole meaning contained in these elements, showing the plastic expression of the essence of primitive villages.
The contact with her brother, Roberto Ayala, teacher, sculptor and anthropologist, has added knowledge in this walk. Upon receiving Lotte Schulz, renowned illustrator-designer and director of Museum in her shop, got her a great incentive to show the world the valuable and authentic production of the peoples of the forest.
In search for further academic knowledge, she attended the workshop of Monica Delssin, where she received lessons in painting techniques and coloring concepts.
With her participation in the cultural circuit, got her closer to Lucy YEGROS, Gustavo Beckelman, Herman GUGGIARI, notably among them the painter Hernán Miranda (hyper realistic). And Regina, who was already in love with academic painting, when contemplated the works of this artist, showed splendid admiration, even calling herself "the follower". Appropriating these skills she experienced, employed them in her work.
A detailed investigation has achieved, in the perfection and beauty, the colors used in their technical and photographic realism, resulted in a bright plastic production.
In her exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in October 2003, the city of Asuncion, was recognized as the new phenomenon of contemporary arts, winning titles, received several orders and invitations to exhibit in other coutries.
Recognized in the Paraguayan artistic world, following her way with firmness and confidence, Regina Hornung opens in paths that lead us to pleasure and spiritual delight. Thus, in contemplating her work, we can see the living history of the art of native South Americans.
Jabim Nunes, Octubre 2004
ETHNIC FUSION
The real artists are the messengers of humanity and, of course yes, those who walk and must walk with one foot in the future. That future shuttle floats in the ideals of the generations that intertwine the past ones and the others to come. A message backed by solid content, that will survive and resist time.
This, Regina, documents with all truth, without being the slave of her work. She exposes her essence and in its thematic style, creating and recreating her new proposals.
Regina Hornung, reflected in her works the rescue of this work in present time. Her works, photographic achievements hold in itself, the message of the life of ancient cultures of the peoples that survived.
It is noticeable that from our ancestors up to this date, conduct their affairs of daily life with the same materials and themes of our ancestors. Emphasizing in our unconscious a high aesthetic value.
For water containers and blankets using the region´s own materials. Their clay vessels and fabrics with vegetable fibers, as well as zoomorphic images, are the "leitmotiv" of Regina.
The form of their vessels are beautiful and perfect, their geometric tissues change in the quality of the fabric and knots, making that a piece, or is intended to heads or common members of a community.
Frankly I do not know what is more interesting for satisfaction and delight of our mind: contemplating a work of art or reading the history of art.
"Our Regina, in Latin and the queen in Spanish with a lot of patience, research, and work assimilates the utilitarian art of the primitive inhabitants of this part of the continent and unite them with a lot of sensitivity, technical development, enriching and adorning these two cultures to the charges of our time.
Contemplating these works we can admire the level of research that Regina has achieved, featuring with high knowledge the work of fabric in Caraguatá done by the Ayora and Nivaclé ethnies this is where the science of investigation begins and ends, the high technical knowledge - Photographic and the exceptional creativity, both in composition and in the colors traditionally used by our Aboriginal brothers. "
Lotte Schultz
Director of National Museum of Fine Arts - Asunción - Paraguay
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