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Lygia Pape (Bilingual edition): The Skin of ALL

Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Edited by Isabelle Malz, Text by Pauline Bachmann, Text by Briony Fer, Text by Susanne Gaensheimer, Text by Paulo Herkenhoff, Text by CÃ©cile Huber, Text by Isabelle Malz, Text by Paula Pape, Text by Luiza ProenÃ§a

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As one of the key figures of Brazilâ€™s Neo-Concrete movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Lygia Pape developed a specific understanding of geometric abstraction that resulted in a radical new conception of concrete-constructivist art, challenging an overly rigid rationalism by moving toward more subjective, multi-sensorial modes of expression. Marking Papeâ€™s first solo exhibition in Germany, this richly illustrated book presents the artistâ€™s unusual creative power in all its breadth, drawing on a body of documents that is being published for the first time. Against the backdrop of the tension between Brazilâ€™s vibrant avant-garde and the growing political repression through the military dictatorship (1964â€“1985), Papeâ€™s work reflects ethical and socio-political issues and harnesses experimental explorations of not just metaphorical geometric but social space to create poetic manifestations of subtle resistance. Emphasizing the primacy of the sensorial experience of the viewers, Pape went as far as to declare them to be the actual creators of her works.