Monotypes
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- 2015
- 432 pages
- 32,5 × 20,5 cm
- 350 colour illustrations
- softcover, contents printed on thin paper, embossed linen dust jacket loosely folded over
- ISBN: 978-3-86442-112-9
- Edition: English
- Institution: Hauser & Wirth London in collaboration with Olivier Renaud-Clément
- Edited by: Hauser & Wirth
- Texts by: Taisa Palhares
- Design: Kühle und Mozer, Köln
Mira Schendel (1919–1988) may well be described as one of the most significant and at the same time most productive post-war artists of Latin America. The basis of her immense and singular oeuvre, in which she negotiates questions of existence as well as of language and meaning, is formed by drawing, painting and sculpture. Taken directly from the artist’s archive, this book now brings together for the first time a selection of monotypes, which formed an essential part of Mira Schendel’s daily working practice. Wholly concentrated on the ideas of writing, of invisibility and of the ephemeral, these monotypes, reproduced in facsimile on India paper, convey an immediate impression of the Brazilian artist’s aesthetic. Taisa Palhares of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, co-curator of the retrospective shown at Tate Modern from September 2013 to January 2014, provides a concise guide to Mira Schendel’s work in her text.
Exhibition:
Hauser & Wirth, London, 28/1 – 7/3/2015