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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lygia Clark, Superfície modulada n. 9 [Modulated Surface n. 9], 1957 Photo: Edouard Fraipont
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lygia Clark, Superfície modulada n. 9 [Modulated Surface n. 9], 1957 Photo: Edouard Fraipont
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lygia Clark, Superfície modulada n. 9 [Modulated Surface n. 9], 1957 Photo: Edouard Fraipont

Lygia Clark 1920-1988

Superfície modulada n. 9 [Modulated Surface n. 9], 1957
Tinta industrial sobre madeira [Industrial paint on wood]
36.5 x 93 cm [14 1/2 x 36 1/2 in.]
LC-0081

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[EN] In the period of the Grupo Frente (1954-1956), Lygia Clark's first Superfícies moduladas still operated under a game of fitting together, in the wake of her series Quebra da...
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In the period of the Grupo Frente (1954-1956), Lygia Clark's first Superfícies moduladas still operated under a game of fitting together, in the wake of her series Quebra da Moldura (1954). References to the frame in the Superfícies moduladas became minimal in order to clarify the articulation of organic lines in the modulation of the pictorial surface. It is no longer two things - frame and canvas - that meet for the production of the painting, but autonomous planes of wood that are separated in the world for the artist to submit to the juxtapositive conjunction that forms the pictorial field and its spatial variations. The discourse of the painting uses the verb “modular” to model dimensions and intensities of chromatic relationships. The surface is made uniform by the flat color, leaving no gestures or traces in the application of the industrial paint that provide the homogeneity of the painted surface.

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No período do Grupo Frente (1954-1956), as primeiras Superfícies moduladas de Lygia Clark ainda operavam sob um jogo de encaixe, na esteira de sua série Quebra da Moldura (1954). As referências à moldura nas Superfícies moduladas passaram a serem mínimas para que se esclareça a articulação pelas linhas orgânicas na modulação da superfície pictórica. Já não são duas coisas – moldura e tela – que se encontram para a produção da pintura, mas serão planos autônomos de madeira que estão separados no mundo para que a artista submeta à conjunção justapositiva que forma o campo pictórico e suas variações espaciais. O discurso da pintura recorre ao verbo “modular” para modelizar dimensões e intensidades de relações cromáticas. A superfície se uniformiza pela cor chapada, sem deixar gestos e traços na aplicação da tinta industrial que fornecem a homogeneidade da superfície pintada.

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Exhibitions

Lygia Clark: projeto para um planeta. Pinacoteca de São Paulo: São Paulo, 02 de março a 04 de agosto de 2024 [March 02nd to August 04th, 2024]
Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art. MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art: New York, 10 de maio a 24 de agosto, 2014 [May 10th to August 24th, 2014]

Lygia Clark: Retrospective. Fudanció Antoni Tàpies: Barcelona, 22 de outubro to 21 de dezembro de 1997 [October 22nd to December 21st, 1997]; MAC: galeries contemporaines des Musées de Marseille: Marselha, 16 de janeiro a 12 de abril de 1998 [January 16th to April 12th, 1998]; Fundação de Serralves: Porto, 30 de abril a 28 de junho de 1998 [April 30th to June 28th, 1998]; Societé des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts: Bruxelas, 24 de julho a 27 de setembro de 1998 [July 24th to September 27th, 1998]; Paço Imperial: Rio de Janeiro, 8 de dezembro de 1998 a 28 de fevereiro de 1999 [December 8th, 1998, to February 28th, 1999]

Literature

Lygia Clark: projeto para um planeta. São Paulo: Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2024 - p. 254
Lygia Clark: Meu Doce Rio. Londrina: Galileu Edições, 2020 - capa [cover]
Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art. New York: MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, 2014 - p. 100
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