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Lygia Pape at The Met Breuer, New York

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Artist Lygia Pape at The Met Breuer, New York

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Artist Lygia Pape at The Met Breuer, New York

by Blouin Artinfo • The Met Breuer presents “A Multitude of Forms,” an exhibition devoted to Brazilian artist Lygia Pape. The exhibition is on view through July 23, 2017.

Artist Lygia Pape at The Met Breuer, New York

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Lygia Pape (Brazilian, 1927–2004) Divisor (Divider) 1968 Performance at Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, 1990 Chromogenic print Photo by Paula Pape

The Met Breuer presents “A Multitude of Forms,” an exhibition devoted to Brazilian artist Lygia Pape. The exhibition is on view through July 23, 2017.

Lygia Pape (1927–2004, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was one of the most prominent artists of her generation and was a leading protagonist at a crucial moment for the history of art in Brazil. Pape was part of the Concrete movement (Grupo Frente) in Rio de Janeiro, reworking the legacies of geometric abstraction. It then evolved in 1959 into the Neoconcrete group, aimed at giving priority to experimentation and process over any normative principle. The exhibition will present a selection of sculpture, prints, paintings, installation, photography, performance, and film.

The exhibition is on view at The Met Breuer, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021.

For details, visit: http://www.metmuseum.org/

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Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms

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By Iria Candela
Contributions by Glória Ferreira, Sérgio B. Martins, and John Rajchman

This catalogue accompanies The Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Modern & Contemporary Art exhibition at The Met Breuer.

Lygia Pape (1927–2004) was one of the most acclaimed and influential Brazilian artists of the twentieth century. A prominent member of a generation of artists who embraced the optimistic spirit of postwar Brazil, she is particularly known for her participation in the experimental art movement Neoconcretism. Beyond that, Pape engaged with a wide range of media, constantly experimenting in a quest to confront the canonical and discover unexplored territories in modern art. This beautifully illustrated publication accompanies the first major exhibition in the United States devoted to Pape's work. Featuring essays by art historians in both North and South America, as well as two previously untranslated interviews with the artist and an illustrated chronology, Lygia Pape is a testament to the artist's lasting importance to the modern art and culture of Latin America and to her position as a major figure of the international avant-garde.

Iria Candela is Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Glória Ferreira is a professor at Escola de Belas Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Sérgio B. Martins is a professor in the History Department at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.

John Rajchman is a philosopher who teaches in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York.

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Exhibition Overview

Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms is the first monographic exhibition in the United States devoted to Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004). A critical figure in the development of Brazilian modern art, Pape combined geometric abstraction with notions of body, time, and space in unique ways that radically transformed the nature of the art object in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Covering a prolific, unclassifiable career that spanned five decades, this exhibition examines Pape's extraordinarily rich oeuvre as manifest across varied media—from sculpture, prints, and painting to installation, photography, performance, and film.

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The exhibition is made possible by The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation and The Garcia Family Foundation.

It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with Projeto Lygia Pape.

On view at The Met Breuer in Floor 4