Lygia Pape
- Introduction
- Lygia Pape (7 April 1927 – 3 May 2004) was a prominent Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete movement and a later co-founder of the Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. Along with Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, she was a formative artist in the expansion of contemporary art in Brazil and pushed geometric art to include aspects of interaction and to engage with ethical and political themes.
- Wikidata
- Q3773732
- Introduction
- Pape was active in the Concretism and Neo-Concretism movements.
- Nationalities
- Brazilian, South American
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Dancer, Installation Artist, Painter, Performance Artist, Sculptor
- Names
- Lygia Pape, Lígia Pape
- Ulan
- 500075104
Exhibitions
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512: Circle and Square, Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Piet Mondrian
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift
May 28–Sep 12, 2020
MoMA
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406A: In and Out of Paris
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
Apr 15–Aug 13, 2017
MoMA
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Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013
Jan 1–Dec 31, 2013
MoMA
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Lygia Pape has
9 exhibitionsonline.
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Lygia Pape Orange 1955
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Lygia Pape Untitled 1956
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Lygia Pape Untitled 1957
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Lygia Pape Untitled 1959
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Lygia Pape Untitled from the series Weavings (Tecelares) 1959
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Lygia Pape Untitled from the series Weavings (Tecelares) 1959
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Lygia Pape Book of Creation 1959–60
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Lygia Pape Untitled from the series Weavings (Tecelares) 1960
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