Lygia Pape
Livro do Tempo (Book of Time) 1961-63
Installation view
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2011
© Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Lygia Pape
Untitled 1954–56
Tempera / Oil on wood
40 x 40 x 3.2 cm
Installation view
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2011
© Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Magnetized Space: Lygia Pape at the Serpentine Gallery ‘Magnetized Space’ is the first major exhibition in the UK focused on Lygia Pape (1927–2004), a leading Brazilian artist whose work brought together daring experimentation and formal rigour.
7 December 2011 – 19 February 2012.
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Source: Serpentine Gallery / theartwolf.com
Lygia Pape (1927–2004) was a founding member of the Neo Concrete movement, along with artists like Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark or Franz Weissmann. This movement was born as a reaction to “orthodox” Concretism, and was dedicated to the inclusion of art into everyday life.
“Magnetized Space” brings together well-known and previously unseen works by Pape, spanning sculpture, performance, paintings, films, poems, engravings and collages. As the Serpentine Gallery explains in a press release, “many of these works were created in response to the political repression growing in the late 1960s and reflected the artist’s strongly critical views on Brazil’s elite”. Hélio Oiticica – a contemporary of Lygia Pape’s – described her works as ‘permanently open seeds’.
The exhibition is organised by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid) in collaboration with Projeto Lygia Pape and the Serpentine Gallery in London.
“Magnetized Space” is curated by Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, and Sophie O’Brien, Exhibition Curator.
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