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Review: Lygia Clark, MoMA
Courtney Fiske, Art in America
February 2014
Seen after a tour of the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, “Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988” inspired a sense of déjà vu. Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1920, Clark took the historical avant-garde as her point of departure, and its legacies ramify throughout her art. Her angular, abstract oil paintings of the 1940s and ’50s evince de Stijl’s drive to integrate surface and support; her articulated metal sculptures, “Bichos” (Critters), 1960-63, echo the Russian avant-garde’s spatial constructions; her six-lensed Óculos (Goggles), 1968, resemble a Surrealist prosthetic. […]