
“Lygia Clark: Painting as an Experimental Field, 1948–1958”
Curated by Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães
Revisiting foundational work by any great artist is always instructive. That of Lygia Clark’s first decade, from roughly 1948 to 1958, presages her radical sculptural and therapeutic experiments—the latter of which didn’t materialize until 1963, with Caminhando, a performance that invited viewers to cut Möbius strips from paper—and includes her breathtaking early paintings. Those years are the focus of an exhibition at the Guggenheim in Bilbao, which will be the artist’s first in Spain since the 1997 retrospective at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona.