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Review: Lygia Clark, MoMA
Clara Lopez, Mousse
July 2014
In the retrospective exhibition on view throughout the summer in the Museum of Modern Art 53rd Street location, Lygia Clark’s oeuvre unfolds like a sinuous path of aesthetic and poetic decisions tending towards an exercise of political and social responsibility. Like in her seminal work “Caminhando”, from 1963, where the artist sat down with a pair of scissors and a Moebius strip that she kept slicing until the strips were too thin to be cut again, the visitor has to decide what is the path she is going to follow. […]