THE ARMORY SHOW

A paramount figure in Brazilian art during the second half of the 20th and the first decades of the 21st centuries, Tomie Ohtake is known for having produced one the most compelling body of works in late modern art in the Americas, embracing painting, sculpture, print-making, drawing, collage, theatre staging, and monumental civic-scaled works. A close reading of different stages in Ohtake’s trajectory shows how she mobilises her forces from the physical dimension of brushstrokes to the parameters of spirituality to take the constructive rationale closer to gestural sensitivity, thus obtaining a fundamental stylistic singularity in opposed references. Tomie Ohtake’s ‘curved geometry’ involves the circle’s modes of existence in an extensive typology, which gradually grew more and more atmospheric from the end of the 1980’s.