Lygia Clark

One of the key Brazilian participants in Latin America’s revolutionary midcentury concrete and neoconcrete movements, Lygia Clark (1920-88) is known throughout the world for her innovative approach to modular sculpture and forms of participatory art, as well as her paintings and engagement with art as a therapeutic practice.

This volume focuses on the first decade of Clark’s career, during which the artist experimented with new forms of representation based on concrete art’s emphasis on the material character of shapes and colors. Clark’s paintings oscillate between figuration and abstraction, with splinters of jewel-toned triangles and bold black-and-white parallelograms that interlock with one another on square canvases. Readers can follow the precision with which she created her geometrical paintings and identify the visual language of Clark’s practice, which would continue to inform the kinetic sculptures later in her career.

Cornelia Butler is Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Luis Perez-Oramas is the Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art for the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art.

Sergio Bessa is the director of curatorial and education programs at the Bronx Museum, and a teacher of Museum Education at Columbia University.

Eleonora Fabiao is a performer/performance theorist and Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Briony Fer is a British art historian, curator and Professor of History of Art at University College London.

Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães has curated for the Museum of Modern Art and the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery.

Andre Lepecki is Associate Professor at the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is a writer and curator working mainly on performance studies, choreography and dramaturgy.

Zeuler Lima is an architect and associate professor of history, theory and design at the School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.