In an exhibition at Pinault Collection, the Brazilian artist fuses the corporeal and the abstract via text-based works and installation The first solo exhibition of Lygia Pape in France underscores the historical significance of artists from outside Europe who...
LYGIA PAPE, UNE OEUVRE COUSUE DE FILS D’OR A la Bourse de Commerce de Paris, une plongée magistrale dans l’art sensuel et épuré de la plasticienne brésilienne. C’est comme une pluie d’or qui relie ciel et terre. A chacun de nos mouvements, au gré des...
Pape’s work endures because it makes us feel collectivity as a physical condition rather than a concept. PARIS — This year, Paris didn’t slip back into la rentrée, that annual return from summer break to regular life, so much as lurch into it. What’s usually a...
The Brazilian gallery will hold a career-spanning exhibition of Pape’s work in São Paulo in April 2026 The Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927-2004) is now represented by Mendes Wood DM. Pape made pioneering contributions to Brazilian art over the course of her...
White Cube is pleased to announce representation of the estate of pioneering Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004). The artist’s debut with White Cube will take place at the 2023 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach (stand A23), where the gallery will present four works...
Frequently remembered for her three-dimensional and installation-based works, created with symmetrically tensioned threads, she was the only printmaker of the Grupo Frente, which laid the foundations of the constructive movement in Brazil in the 1950s. Between 1955...
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...
Concurrent exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and Punta della Dogana in Venice frame the early and late edges of Brazilian artist Lygia Pape’s diverse career. Lygia Pape, Ttéia 1, C (2003–2017). Exhibition view: Group exhibition, Icônes, Punta della...
WE ARE NEARING the five-year anniversary of the fire at Brazil’s Museu Nacional that devoured nearly twenty million artifacts. By now, we know the immediate and semi-immediate causes of this anthropological, archaeological, and artistic catastrophe, from the...
Through the Brazilian artist’s Constructivism and the American’s Minimalism, the rigor of the cross is put to the test In the darkness of a cathedral, even cobwebs seem golden. The extremely fine threads of the work by Lygia Pape recall rays of light cutting through...
Lygia Pape was a great admirer and scholar of the original Brazilian people, especially the Tupinambás. In the 2000s, she created a series of “Tupinambás” works, the most emblematic being the “Manto Tupinambá”. In the same way that the...
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...
