PACITA ABAD: STITCHING SOLIDARITIES
MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFÍA, MADRID, SPAIN: OPENING 8 JULY 2027
Review: Lygia Clark, MoMA
Valery Oisteanu, The Brooklyn Rail
June 2014
This is Lygia Clark’s first comprehensive exhibition in North America, comprised of nearly 300 works including drawings, paintings, and sculptures spanning a 40-year period. Curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas and Cornelia Butler, and assisted by Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães and Beatriz Rabelo Olivetti, the show is an overdue homage to a interdisciplinary artist and “medicine-woman” — a renaissance figure who experimented with conceptual, wearable body art, healing techniques, and interactive conversations with the spectator. […]