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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Lygia Clark: Project for a Planet

Praça da Luz, 2 - Luz, São Paulo - SP, 01120-010, Brazil

Born in 1920, the pioneering Brazilian painter and sculptor Lygia Clark once said, “We do everything so automatically that we have forgotten the poignancy of smell, of physical anguish, of tactile sensations of all kinds.” Early on Clark was a Constructivist and an important figure in the Neo-Concrete movement. But in the 1970s she became interested in sensory perception and psychology, and sought interaction between her art and the viewer. This survey traces the development of her visual language from the 1950s to the 1980s. Clark died in 1988, and this is her first solo show at the museum in 18 years. —Elena Clavarino

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