In the mid–1960s Schendel produced a vast body of work called Monotypes, consisting of minimalist, gestural drawings on rice paper. For Schendel drawing was a form of meditation, of rumination, a way of marking time and investigating it. These Perfurados, once bound books, have been separated over time. A mechanical tool was substituted for the artist's hand: the paper has been perforated by a hole–punch to create an abstract, minimalist composition.
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions, November 21, 2007–February 25, 2008.
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Mira Schendel
Brazilian, born Switzerland. 1919–1988 60 works onlineIn the early 1960s, the artist Mira Schendel received a large gift of thin Japanese paper. It transformed her practice, giving rise to thousands of Monotipias and culminating in her Objetos gráficos of the 1970s, made while she dedicated a decade to the investigation of the medium of drawing and its potential.
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