“Lygia Pape” Installation view ©White Cube SeoulWhite Cube Seoul presents “Lygia Pape”, a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927-2004), on view through May 25. The exhibition is the gallery’s inaugural presentation of the artist and the first-ever presentation of her work in Seoul.
A seminal figure in the Concrete art movement and a founding member of its splinter group, the Neo-Concrete movement, Lygia Pape played a defining role in in the development of contemporary art in Latin American. This exhibition traces the trajectory of Pape’s experimental five-decade career, showcasing some of the artist’s most renowned works across drawing, sculpture and installation, through which she pioneered new forms of geometric abstraction that questioned the spatial dynamics between artwork and viewer.
Lygia Pape was born in Nova Friburgo and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her solo exhibitions include Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (2023); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2022); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2018), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Met Breuer, New York (2017). Selected group exhibitions include Pinault Collection / Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy (2023); MoMA, New York (2009), and 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Her work is held in international public collections including Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Centre Pompidou Paris; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela and New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MoMA, New York; and Tate, London.
