How Lygia Clark Transformed Contemporary Art in Brazil and Beyond
Luciano deMarsillac, Artsy
March 2020
‘What I wanted was to express space itself, not to compose within it’, Lygia Clark said in 1959. In succeeding, she liberated what she saw as the ‘dead’ picture plane from the wall, giving it unprecedented meaning.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the famed Brazilian Neo-Concretist’s birth (she died in 1988). To celebrate her legacy, three international solo exhibitions will take place this year: One, which recently opened at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (through May 24th), will then open at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice on June 27th; those presentations will be followed by ‘Lygia Clark: Centenary’, opening at Alison Jacques Gallery in London on October 7th. […]