19 Mar Lygia Pape

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White Cube is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Asia of pioneering Brazilian
artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004), opening in Seoul in March 2024.

A vital figure in the emergence of contemporary art in Brazil, Pape’s five-decade-long career
saw the artist forging new forms of geometric abstraction that questioned the spatial
dynamic between artwork and viewer.
The first exhibition of her work at White Cube Seoul coincides with the 20th anniversary of
Pape’s death and offers an overview of the breadth of her experimental practice, which
included painting, printmaking, sculpture, film, performance, and installations.

A highlight of the show is a site-specific installation from her important ‘Ttéia’ series, which
the artist produced during the latter decades of her life. In Ttéia 1, B (2000), accumulations
of intricate woven gold thread extend across the corner of the gallery, forming luminous
columns of light. Evoking the woven geometries of her formative ‘Tecelares’ prints and
‘Desenhos’ drawings, the ‘Ttéia’ series stands as one of Pape’s most celebrated group of
works, emblematising her career-long investigations into geometric abstraction and
interactivity.

Lygia Pape was born in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, in 1927 and came of age at the close of the Second
World War. In the early 1950s, while studying at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de
Janeiro, Pape was part of a group of artists who together formed the avant-garde collective
Grupo Frente. Closely associated with the Concrete movement, which had gained
international popularity since the 1930s, the group rejected the Brazilian modernist
conventions of the era – which favoured the figurative – engaging instead with a form of
geometric abstraction untethered from observed reality. Pape later co-founded the influential
Brazilian Neo-Concrete movement (1959 – early 1960s) alongside Hélio Oiticica and Lygia
Clark, which pushed Concrete art to new levels of experimentation.

The exhibition at White Cube Seoul will bring together drawings and reliefs from Pape’s
early career, alongside sculpture and installation from key moments during her later years.

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