Lygia Clark
in ‘Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s–70s’, Raven Row, London
7 March – 5 May 2024
‘Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s-70s’, 2024, exhibition view, Raven Row, London. Courtesy: Raven Row, London; photo: Marcus J Leith. Lygia Clark represented by Alison Jacques.
Lygia Clark is included in the group exhibition, ‘Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s-70s ‘, at Raven Row, London.
Curated by Pablo Lafuente and Paula Souza, this exhibition reflects on some of the absences or exclusions in Brazilian art historiography, presenting the work of thirty artists, much of which has never been seen in the UK before. A rich diversity of artistic approaches existed in Brazil in the decades around the mid-twentieth century, after the first modernist wave had settled. ‘Some May Work as Symbols’ finds conversations between various forms of abstraction, symbolism and figuration that were circulating and interacting in the visual culture of that time.