Lygia pape biography of albert

  • Lygia Pape (7 April 1927 – 3 May 2004) was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete movement.
  • Lygia Pape was a prominent Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete movement and a later co-founder of.
  • A critical figure in the development of Brazilian modern art, Pape combined geometric abstraction with notions of body, time, and space in unique ways aiming.

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    Lygia Pape

    White Cube is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Asia of pioneering Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004), opening in Seoul in March 2024.

    A vital figure in the emergence of contemporary art in Brazil, Pape’s five-decade-long career saw the artist forging new forms of geometric abstraction that questioned the spatial dynamic between artwork and viewer. The first exhibition of her work at White Cube Seoul coincides with the 20th anniversary of Pape’s death and offers an overview of the breadth of her experimental practice, which included painting, printmaking, sculpture, film, performance, and installations.

    A highlight of the show is a site-specific installation from her important ‘Ttéia’ series, which the artist produced during the latter decades of her life. In Ttéia 1, B (2000), accumulations of intricate woven gold thread extend across the corner of the gallery, forming luminous columns of light. Evoking the woven geometries of her formative ‘Tecela

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    LETTERS ON SPEECH, BODY, EMOTION AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES

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    (2) in the late 1960s and 1970s, brazil was in the midst of the most repressive years of a military dictatorship that came to rule the country for twenty one years, from 1964 until 1985. in december 1968, the military regime decreed the ai-5 (institutional act #5) which abolished civil rights in the country, instituted censorship of the media and the arts, and implemented tortyr as a practice of the state. by then, all attentions were turned towards the struggle against the repression and censorship imposed by the military regime, overshadowing other important debates such as gender differences, social inequalities, a

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    Lygia Clark
    Biography

    Lygia Clark, one of the most important figures of Brazilian post war art, was born in Belo Horizonte in 1920. As of 1947 she studied art in Rio de Janeiro and moved to Paris in 1950, where she continued her studies. In Paris Lygia Clark also worked with Fernand Léger.
    As of 1952 Lygia Clark lived in Rio de Janeiro again. In 1954 she was founding member of the artist association "Grupo Frente", together with, among others, Ivan Serpa, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Lygia Pape, Franz Weissmann and Palatnik. In the second half of the 1950s she made the series of works called "Modulated Surfaces" and "Counter-Reliefs", and in 1959 Lygia Clark was among the signers of the "Neoconcrete" manifesto.
    Between 1958 and 1960 Lygia Clark stayed in New York for some time, where the striving young Brazilian artist was received the Guggenheim International Award. Back in Rio de Janeiro, Lygia Clark worked on the series of geometric metal parts called "Creatures" between 1960 a