Lygia Clark
in ‘The Point of Sculpture’, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
15 October 2021 – 6 March 2022
Lygia Clark, Estruturas de Caixa de Fósforos, 1964. Courtesy: © O Mundo de Lygia Clark-Associação Cultural, Rio de Janeiro
Lygia Clark is included in ‘The Point of Sculpture’, a tour through the development and varied genealogies of contemporary sculpture curated by David Bestué.
The exhibition comprises seven rooms, which correspond with seven aspects of sculptural practice: copy, imprint and cast; materials and materiality; physical qualities; metamorphosis; temporality; the representation of the human body; and, finally, works that convey contact and exchange.
In these rooms, Bestué offers his particular vision of the impact of recent technological, stylistic and theoretical developments, as well as a testimony of the prevailing fascination traditional and vernacular sculpture still exerts on artists today. The exhibition is thus an opportunity to reassess, and refocus on, the importance of sculpture as a discipline in an era of increasingly malleable and blurred artistic practices.