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LYGIA CLARK AT THE MoMA MAY 10 – AUGUST 24

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Planos em superfície modulada, 1957. Collage, cardboard. Copyright ‘The World of Lygia Clark’ Cultural Association, Rio de Janeiro.

LYGIA CLARK: THE ABANDONMENT of ART, 1948-1988

May 10 – August 24, 2014

The Museum of Modern Art

1 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019

 
Opening May 10th, The Museum of Modern Art will present a major retrospective devoted to the art of Lygia Clark (Brazilian, 1920-1988), set to be the first comprehensive exhibition in North America of her work. Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988 comprises nearly 300 works made between the late 1940s and her death in 1988. Drawn from public and private collections, including MoMA’s own, this survey is organized around three key themes: abstraction, Neo-Concretism, and the “abandonment” of art. Each of these axes anchors a significant concept or a constellation of works that mark a definitive step in Clark’s career.
While Clark’s legacy in Brazil is profound, this exhibition draws international attention to her work. By bringing together all parts of her radical production, the exhibition seeks to reintroduce her into current discourses of abstraction, participation, and a therapeutic art practice. Lygia Clark trained in Rio de Janeiro and Paris from late 1940s to mid-1950s and was a leading abstract artist at the forefront of the Neo-Concretist movement in Brazil, fostering the active participation of spectators through her works. From the late 1960s through the 1970s she created a series of unconventional artworks in parallel to a lengthy psychoanalytic therapy, leading her to develop a series of therapeutic propositions grounded in art. Clark has become a major reference for contemporary artists dealing with the limits of conventional forms of art.
For more information on Lygia Clark, please click here.
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