Tag: Lygia Clark

  • Laura Lima – interview

    Lima’s installation The Drawing Drawing at the ICA is delightfully disorienting, with the model and the artists – the audience – orbiting one another on mechanised platforms. The artist talks about why she sees her work as conceptual art rather…

  • Solange Pessoa: Pilgrim Fields

    An olfactory orgy of marigolds, chamomile, grasses, sheepskins and kelp is arranged into a surreal landscape – and a lush scentscape – to prick our understanding of what is wild and what is natural, in the Brazilian artist’s first UK…

  • Lygia Clark: The I and the You

    Co-curated by Sonia Boyce, this concise exhibition shows how Clark’s geometric abstraction in the 50s gave way in the 60s to a greater focus on sensory experience and connection with her audience

  • Gego: Measuring Infinity

    The vibrant sculptural works in wire and metal for which Gertrud Goldschmidt is known are complemented in this major retrospective by etchings, prints and textiles, all of which expose her genius for conjuring movement and energy with the simple line

  • Inside Other Spaces. Environments By Women Artists 1956-1976

    Many of the pioneers in environmental art were women, but their works were often ephemeral, destroyed once a show was over. Here, the curators have painstakingly recreated some of those works, putting their artists firmly back in the spotlight

  • Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist Art in Britain since 1951

    There is some compelling work here, but this could have been a chance to see a century of revolution in art, science and technology from the 1920s to the present, so neglecting the pre-1950 period seems a shame

  • Lygia Clark: Painting as an Experimental Field 1948-1958

    Best-known for her sculptural and interactive later works, a survey of the first decade of the Brazilian modernist’s practice reveals her as a multifaceted, quicksilver painter

  • Dallas Art Fair

    The 10th edition of the major art showcase was an affirmation of the city’s commitment to visual culture

  • Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium

    This inspiring retrospective at the Whitney captures the sensuous resonance of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica’s work, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in the life-affirming spirit of his oeuvre

  • Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms

    The exhibition gives an insight into the development of modernism in Brazil, a country to which it was an extraneous mode of aesthetic language, developed under the influence of a somewhat slowly spreading wave of international modernism