Pinakotheke Cultural São Paulo presents the exhibition

"Lygia Clark (1920-1988) 100 years"

 

The historic exhibition, almost entirely made up of previously unseen works, offers the public a dive into the development of the thought of one of the most important artists of the 20th century, who has already won exhibitions in prestigious museums such as the MoMA in New York and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, among many other institutions.

 

 

Pinakotheke Cultural, São Paulo

15 November 2021 to 15 January 2022

Curator: Max Perlingeiro

Realisation: Pinakotheke Cultural in collaboration

With the Cultural Association Lygia Clark,

Free entry

[Anti-Covid protocol]

 

A Pinakotheke Culturalin its headquarters in São Paulowill hold, in collaboration with a Cultural Association Lygia Clarkthe exhibition "Lygia Clark (1920-1988) 100 yearsfrom November 15, 2021 to January 15, 2022in commemoration of the centenary of the artist's birth.

Considered by art critics, both nationally and internationally, as one of the most important artists of the 20th century, for her pioneering and original creations, Lygia Clark was born in Belo Horizonte on 23 October 1920 and died on 25 April 1988 in Rio de Janeiro.

Curated by Max Perlingeirothe exhibition will bring together approximately 100 works of the artist, among paintings, drawings, engravings, bugs, climbing, soft work, cocoon, relational objects, photographs and documentsalmost all of them unpublished to the Brazilian public. An example of this is the collection of "Bichos" (Creatures) belonging to English critic Guy Brett (1942-2021), great friend of Lygia Clark since the individual artist at Signals Gallery, London, in 1965. Similarly, are also unpublished formal works from 1943 to 1952as the series "Stairs (1947)about which Lygia Clark declared in an interview to the artist Luciano Figueiredo and the journalist Matinas Suzuki Jr. in 1986: "When I was figurative, the only thing I liked to do were the stairs. And Léger used to say, laughing a lot, when he saw my things, that all I did, deep down, were stairs. See how curious, inside the staircase you could already see the defoliation of a bug. The creature is already inside the staircase, isn't it? Also unpublished are the "Relational Aims (1968-1973), considered by many to be his most radical experiment, are also unpublished. Also never before seen by the public are several works from the series "Modulated Surface e "Modulated Space" seriesseries, by the artist

LYGIA CLARK'S THOUGHT THROUGH HER TRAJECTORY

The exhibition will follow a chronologydivided into 17 conceptual orders that make up his trajectory as an artist: "Stairs" (1947), "Kleemania" (1952), "Breaking the Frame" (1954), "Organic Line" (1954), "Art/Architecture" (1955), "Modulated Surface" (1955-1956), "Modulated Surface Planes Series A" (1957), "Modulated Surface Planes Series B" (1958), "Modulated Space" (1958), "Unity" (1958),

"Linear Egg" (1958), "Counter relief" (1959), "Cocoon" (1959), "Beast" (1960-1964), "Soft work" (1964), "Climbing" (1965) and "Relational objects" (1968-1973).

For each of these segments, the public can follow wall texts written by the critic Paulo Herkenhoffwhich help in the understanding and evolution of the artist's thought and her creations.

The exhibition also brings other treasures, such as the recreation, on the basis of a photographof the "7 Units "7 Unitsby Lygia Clark, in the "Neoconcrete Exhibition (1958)in the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, where the artist is sitting on a chair designed by Abraham Palatnik (1950s, for the furniture factory Arte Viva). The works and the chair are in exactly the same position as in the photograph, which can be seen in the exhibition and in the accompanying book.

FILMS AND VIDEOINSTALLATION

An animation of the photo essay made by Alécio de Andrade (1938-2003) of the performance "Biological Architectures IIthat Lygia Clark created in 1969 at the Hôtel d'Aumont, in Paris. The animation was done by Fabrício Marques, and the organ is by Gabriel Pinheiro.

On alternate daysthe public will see in the exhibition the films "Memory of the Body (1984)by Mário Carneirowith production by Solange Padilha and videography by Waltercio Caldas, who registered the last proposal designed by the artist, the "Structuring of the Self"; and; e "The World of Lygia Clark (1973)by Eduardo Clarkwith direction of photography by David Drew Zingg e Antonio Guerreiroand music by Naná Vasconcelos.

A special room will be set up to show the video installation "DSÍ - embodyment" (2021)8', three cameras with three different monitors, recording the performance of Carolyna Aguiarand directed by Leticia Monte and Ana Vitória. In the videoinstallation, the viewer is invited to "experience inaugural states of the fragmentary body in its pulsating perspective of life and death", explain Ana Vitória and Leticia Monte. "Here the body debates in a constant struggle to become what it is, unraveling and collecting itself continuously in an incessant dance-fight immemorial, place of the empty-plentiful, that Lygia Clark insists that we revisit."

BILINGUAL BOOK, WITH UNPUBLISHED TEXTS

Accompanying the exhibition is the book bilingual (port/ingl) of the same name "Lygia Clark (1920-1988) 100 years".316 pages, 27.5 cm x 22cm, with unpublished critical textsimages and information about the works, a selection of personal personal correspondence between Lygia and her artist and intellectual friends, and a chronology chronology.

The first text in the book is Some Latin Americans in Pariswritten by the art theorist and art historian Yve-Alain Bois (Constantine, Algeria, 1952), who met Lygia Clark in the in the 1960s in Paris, and became her close friend. After 15 years as a member of the history of art and architecture at Harvard University for 15 years, Yve-Alain Bois is in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known simply as the "Institute", a legendary institution that promotes and funds research, which has hosted scientists such as Albert Einstein and art historians such as Erwin Panofsky.

"Through the wide windows of MAM" and "A patient's report" are texts are texts written by Lula Wanderley in 2021 especially for the exhibition.

The publication also contains the unpublished full text of an interview given by Lygia Clark to Matinas Suzuki Jr. and Luciano Figueiredo in 1986which had only been published an extract in the supplement "Folhetim", the "Folha de S. Paulo", on March 2 that year. From his conference "Catharsis and Lygia Clark: the healing power of art, given in 1998, Marcio Doctors edited and updated the text for the book.

The exhibition "Lygia Clark (1920-1988) 100 years" was in the Pinakotheke Cultural Rio de Janeiro from 23 August to 30 October 2021 and passed the mark of 10 thousand visitors during the period.

ABOUT LYGIA CLARK

Since her first exhibitions in Brazil, Lygia Clark had the admiration and encouragement of important art critics as Ferreira Gullar (1930-2016) e Mario Pedrosa (1900-1981). Participated in the 1^a National Exhibition of Concrete Art (1956-57) and in 1959 she signed the Neo-Concrete Manifesto.

His art broke frontiers, and from 1965his participations in the Signals Gallery, in London, the art critic Guy Brett (1942-2021) one of his most fervent admirers since then. His works are in important public and private collections, and are seen in exhibitions in several countries, such as at the Antonie Tàpies FoundationBarcelona, Spain, in 1998, and more recently "Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988", at MoMA New Yorkfrom May 10 to August 24, 2014; and "Painting as an Experimental Field, 1948-1958," at the Guggenheim Bilbaofrom March 6 to October 25, 2020, curated by Peruvian Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, and focusing on works from the artist's first phase.

 

Service: Exhibition Lygia Clark (1920-1988) 100 years

Pinakotheke Cultural, São Paulo

15 November 2021 to 15 January 2022

Free entry and Anti-Covid Protocol

Rua Ministro Nelson Hungria, 200, Morumbi, São Paulo

(11) 3758-0546

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