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Lygia Pape

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Lygia Pape, a founding member of Brazil’s neo-concrete movement, pioneered a unique approach to abstraction and valued art that favored the primacy of viewers’ sensorial experiences. This catalog, published on the occasion of Lygia Pape’s 2018 solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth New York, brings together a variety of works from the artist’s rich oeuvre, from sculptures, prints, and paintings, to installations and films. It focuses particularly on the series Tecelares (1952–59), Ttéias (2003) and Amazoninos (1989–2003). Designed by Damien Saatdjian, the publication includes a 2009 conversation between Pape’s daughter Paula Pape, curator Paulo Herkenhoff, and poet Ferreira Gullar; and a newly commissioned text by art historian Alexander Alberro that explores multisensorial art with a focus on the works surveyed here.

Lygia Pape
Lygia Pape Sale price$45.00

Language

English

Publisher

Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Composition

Hardcover

Contributors

Alexander Alberro, Paulo Herkenoff, Paula Pape (et al.)

Pages

141 pages

Size

24.8 x 32.7 cm

ISBN

9783906915142

Publication Date

Sep-18

The Artist

LYGIA PAPE

Lygia Pape’s work traverses a diverse spectrum of media and genres, spanning the realms of sculpture, engraving, painting, drawing, performance, filmmaking, video and installation art. Born in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro in 1927, throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Pape worked in close dialogue with the Concrete and Neo-Concrete movements then active in Brazil. In affiliating with the Neo-Concrete circle of artists (1959 – 1961), Pape, together with her contemporaries and fellow Concretist dissentors (including Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticia, Reynaldo Jardim, Franz Weissman and Sergio de Camargo), sought to challenge the tenets of abstraction underpinning the aesthetic philosophy of concrete art, and to move toward a greater sensorial, organic and phenomenologically attuned mode of expression.

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