Lygia Clark
in ‘Modern Women and Their Inventions’, Tomie Ohtake Institute, Saõ Paulo
14 June – 20 August 2017
‘Modern Women and Their Inventions’, 2017, exhibition view, Tomie Ohtake Institute, Saõ Paulo. Courtesy: Tomie Ohtake Institute, Saõ Paulo; photo: Ricardo Miyada. Alison Jacques. Lygia Clark.
‘Modern Women and Their Inventions’, 2017, exhibition view, Tomie Ohtake Institute, Saõ Paulo. Courtesy: Tomie Ohtake Institute, Saõ Paulo; photo: Ricardo Miyada
‘Modern Women and Their Inventions’, 2017, exhibition view, Tomie Ohtake Institute, Saõ Paulo. Courtesy: Tomie Ohtake Institute, Saõ Paulo; photo: Ricardo Miyada
Lygia Clark is included in ‘Inventions of Modern Women, Beyond Anita and Tarsila’ at Tomie Ohtake Institute, Saõ Paulo, organized and realized by Instituto Tomie Ohtake and curated by Paulo Herkenhoff. The exhibition highlights the production and the trajectories of several women who defied conventions and limits of their time, during the 19th and 20th centuries in Brazil, whether in the aesthetical or social areas.
For this show, which presents more than 300 works together with photographs and documents, the curator references two pillars of Brazilian modernism, Anita Malfatti and Tarsila do Amaral, and presents new observations about their works and stories. Surrounding these references, most of the works and narratives in the exhibition goes even further and presents women that are mostly unknown to the audience including Clark and Lygia Pape.