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Lygia Pape

Sale price$45.00

Working across sculpture, drawing, engraving, filmmaking, and installation, Brazilian neo-concretist Lygia Pape geometric abstractions play with their viewer’s senses in order to explore rich territory. This publication, which accompanied the 2016 exhibition held at Hauser & Wirth London, brings together a group of works spanning from 1955 to 2001. The precise, incised lines of Pape’s Tecelares woodcut prints and drawings of the 1950s and 1960s marry pure geometry with organic patterns. Her subsequent Ttéia installations (begun in the late 1970s and continued throughout her career) present captivating explorations of geometry, space, and materiality. Particularly notable among the installations is ‘Ttéia no. 7’ (1991): consisting of two small blue pyramids illuminated by a blue light from above, the work explores the boundaries between color, light, and material, as well as the nuanced experience of looking. The book’s deep blue cover, as well as the translucent blue pages bound-in throughout, pays homage to this work. Immersive installation views and focused detail shots complement the perceptive and thoughtful texts by Briony Fer and Daniel Birnbaum, two ardent followers of Pape’s work. Birnbaum, who featured Pape’s ‘Ttéia 1, C’ (2001/2016) as the opening piece in the 53rd Venice Biennale, speaks to the artwork’s heritage and legacy. Fer unpacks Pape’s vision of abstraction, mining her profound sensitivity to the full physical and material experience of printmaking, ultimately elucidating Pape’s deeply human understanding and unique reframing of geometry and abstraction.

Lygia Pape
Lygia Pape Sale price$45.00

Language

English

Publisher

Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Composition

Hardcover

Contributors

Briony Fer, Daniel Birnbaum

Pages

96 pages

Size

24.8 x 32.7 cm

ISBN

9783952446133

Publication Date

May-17

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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