Nuno Centeno is pleased to announce the opening “Dimensions” by Lydia Okumura. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Portugal.
For almost fifty years Lydia Okumura (Born in 1948 to Japanese parents in São Paulo, Brazil / Lives and works in New York since 1974) has transformed space through geometric abstraction, her work blurring the boundaries between illusion and reality and provoking a reassessment of the conventional art-object experience. She was the first Brazilian artist to have their work included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in the 1970s. Her large-scale often site-specific geometric compositions, largely realised using acrylic paint, cotton string, painted aluminium sheets, fabric and wire, actively challenge our perception of the spatial world. Projected into three-dimensional space from walls and floors, they investigate the optical interplay between two- and three-dimensional forms.
The 1970 Tokyo Biennial, which exhibited work by contemporary European and...American conceptual artists – including Carl Andre, Daniel Buren and Sol LeWitt – served as a great source of inspiration, as did the work of Brazilian post neo-concrete. By 1971, Okumura had begun experimenting with her own abstract visual language based on line, form and space. In 1973, she had her break-through at the São Paulo Biennial with Points of View, an abstract environment created collectively with her peers from Equipe3.
Her work was recently the subject of the extensive retrospective Situations, organized by the University of Buffalo - New York, on tour through other US museums. She has participated in important institutional exhibitions at MAC-USP - São Paulo, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz - Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo Biennials, The Hall Foundation, Derneburg - Germany, MuBE - São Paulo, and among galleries such as Broadway 1602, Galeria Jaqueline Martins and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
Imágenes de la Exposición
Lydia Okumura. Dimensions
Entrada actualizada el el 20 mar de 2019
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