Lygia Clark (1920-1988)

Gallerist Max Perlingeiro, founder of Pinakotheke gallery, is the curator of Lygia Clark (1920-1988) Centennialʺ currently showing in Rio de Janeiro. The retrospective displays 100 artworks from Clarkœs four-decade career, featuring all of the radical artistœs seventeen official series in chronological order. The show also presents the thirty-minute documentary film, Memória do Corpoʺ (Memory of the Body, 1984), directed by Mario Carneiro and filmed by conceptual artist Waltércio Caldas. The film focuses on Lygia Clark's (b. Brazil, 1920) sessions of Structuring the Self,ʺ the art-therapy method she created and to which she dedicated the last third of her life after turning her back to the art market. In mid-November the exhibition moves on to Pinakotheke São Paulo, followed by MultiArte Pinakotheke in Fortaleza in early 2022. In the 300-page book published by the gallery for the exhibition, Perlingeiroœs introduction comes in the form of a postmortem letter to Clark, where he discloses that he had the chance to meet her twice but on both occasions was too shy to approach the legendary artist.