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Lygia Pape

LYGIA PAPE

Tupinambá Hauser & Wirth 24 April–8 August 2021 Los Angeles
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A significant Brazilian artist of her generation and a founding member of Brazil’s Neo-Concrete movement, Lygia Pape (1927–2004) favoured the primacy of the viewer’s sensorial experience and its role in everyday life. Tupinambá, organised with Projeto Lygia Pape and Olivier Renaud-Clément, is the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles dedicated to Pape’s work, examining her unique reframing of geometry, abstraction and poetry. Central to the show will be the ‘Tupinambá’ series, one of the artist’s final bodies of work, revealing her desire to create more immersive experiences beyond the conventional boundaries of life and art.

Exhibited for the first time in the US, the works on view from the ‘Tupinambá’ series—distinctive in their use of red feathers—illuminates Pape’s sense of connection to Brazil’s indigenous populations and their history. Unfolding across two galleries, the exhibition will feature the monumental spatial work Manto Tupinambá (2000), a series of related sculptures and works on paper, as well as an emblematic Ttéia. The exhibition follows the artist’s critically acclaimed retrospective at the Met Breuer, New York, and participation in the Hammer Museum’s 2017 exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985.

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Lygia Pape, Manto Tupinambá (Tupinambá Cloak) (2000). Installation view: Lygia Pape, Tupinambá, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2021). © Projeto Lygia Pape. Courtesy Projeto Lygia Pape and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen.
Lygia Pape, Ttéia 1, C (2000/2021). Installation view: Lygia Pape, Tupinambá, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2021). © Projeto Lygia Pape. Courtesy Projeto Lygia Pape and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen.
Lygia Pape, Ttéia 1, C (2000/2021). Installation view: Lygia Pape, Tupinambá, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2021). © Projeto Lygia Pape. Courtesy Projeto Lygia Pape and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen.
Exhibition view: Lygia Pape, Tupinambá, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (24 April–1 August 2021). © Projeto Lygia Pape. Courtesy Projeto Lygia Pape and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen.
About the Artist

Brazilian artist Lygia Pape was one of the frontrunners of the avantgarde Neo-Concrete movement in Brazil, known for her experimentations in sculpture, printmaking, and film.

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About the Gallery

Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and Vice President Marc Payot. A family business with a global outlook, Hauser & Wirth has expanded over the past 26 years to include outposts in Hong Kong, London, New York, Los Angeles, Somerset and Gstaad. The gallery represents over 70 artists and estates who have been instrumental in shaping its identity over the past quarter century, and who are the inspiration for Hauser & Wirth’s diverse range of activities that engage with art, education, conservation and sustainability.

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