The Stiftung Buchkunst selects the most beautiful and innovative books, and every year numerous entries compete for the coveted awards. A total of 25 books will be awarded prizes – 5 from each category.
The catalog accompanying Lygia Pape’s exhibition documents her role in the development of Brazilian modern art. The alternation of chapters such as “Essays”, “Works”, “Archive” creates an extensive corpus, before a series of photos finally conveys spatial impressions of the presentation in the exhibition rooms. Pape was concerned with much more than his own variant of the European avant-garde, as the work »Livro da criação« shows, for example. The »Book of Creation« goes beyond a mere geometric abstraction with a playfully poetic claim. The »Manifesto Neoconcreto«, which she co-signed in 1959, criticizes purely formal and rational methods and cites the HfG Ulm as an example.
Fine blue, red and yellow lines are noticeable in the three-page trimming of the catalogue. When you open it, you see a whole color area. This has a function – these leaves signal the rotating chapter change – but above all it creates a cheerful, sunny atmosphere.
The title motif shows how the artist’s repertoire expanded during the decades of military dictatorship and how she intervened in social space. During the 1968 performance, people crawled under a giant white sheet and stuck their heads out through holes. The paper edge running across the dust jacket arouses curiosity. Additional flaps – the top folded outwards, the bottom folded inwards – enlarge the envelope. In its entirety, a folding object emerges: in memory of Lygia Pape.
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