Join us for lectures on modern and contemporary art. You may bring your own lunch. (Food is not permitted for lectures taking place in The Celeste Bartos Theater).

This lecture provides an overview of the exhibition Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel. Ferrari (Argentine, b. 1920) and Schendel (Brazilian, b. Switzerland, 1919–1988), who produced their works in the neighboring countries of Argentina and Brazil throughout the 1960s and 1980s, when the question of language was particularly central to Western culture due to the central role taken by post-structuralism, semiotics, and the philosophy of language, are considered among the most significant artists in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century. Their works address language as a major visual subject matter: the visual body of language, the embodiment of voices as words and gestures, and language as a metaphor for understanding the human world. Although their drawings, sculptures, and paintings are contemporary with the birth of Conceptualism, they are distinctively different and have not yet been exhibited in their entirety in the United States.

Lecturer: Geaninne Guimaraes

In conjunction with the exhibition Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

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