Lygia Clark
Barcelona: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 1998. 1st Edition. Quarto, publisher's stiff photo-illustrated paper wraps, french flaps.
"For me art is only valid in the ethico-religious sense, internally connected to the inner elaboration of the artist in its deepest sense, which is the existential." Catalog published in conjunction with a major traveling retrospective of work by Brazilian artist Lygia Clark organized, produced, and originally held at Barcelona's Fundació Antoni Tàpies in 1997. A cofounder of the Neo-Concrete movement, with connections to the Brazilian Constructivists and Tropicalia coterie, Clark famously blurred the boundaries between art and everyday life in her work as a painter, sculptor, conceptual artist, and therapist. This catalog, as influential as the exhibition itself, comprises several critical essays, a near-complete collection of Clark’s personal writings, and a selection of her work (paintings, reliefs, sculptures, and propositions). The exhibition traveled to the Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille; the Fundaçáo de Serralves, Porto; and the Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Illustrated with color and black-and-white plates; with a biography and bibliography. Text in French and Portuguese. Minor creasing to spine, else fine. Item #11871
$300.00