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Lygia Pape - Magnetized Space
Opens: 07/12/2011 Closes: 19/02/2012
Serpentine Gallery, London
Brazilian Neo-Concretism extolled the inclusion of art in the everyday, and this first major UK exhibition of work by one of the movement's founding members, the late Lygia Pape, promises to be a hub of audience participation. Abstract paintings and large installations play with formality and show daring rigour.
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The Independent“A hugely innovative artist...” Ttéia takes the monumentalism of Constructive art and renders it fleeting and slight. Using gold threads to suggest a series of columns, Pape turns the solidity of architecture into shafts of light; a kind of hope from darkness...
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The Observer“Hot but surpassingly cool... ” A cut-down version of an immense show from Madrid's Reina Sofia museum, and it cannot help but suffer from the downsizing. It would take more than the compact dimensions of the Serpentine to show off Pape's energetic range and versatility...
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Guardian“So varied it feels almost like a group show...” Pape's art was truly experimental. It also spoke up for personal freedoms, working under a military regime that was, from the 1960s till the mid-1980s, repressive and authoritarian...
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this is london“Conceptually and formally meticulous...” However wild Pape's films seem, there is always an underlying abstraction. In Eat Me, Pape cut the filmstrip itself according to a strict structure, and emphasised the abstraction in the shapes formed by the mouths...
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