Untitled . 1980-1981
Mira Schendel (1919 – 1988) with her contemporaries Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, reinvented the language of European Modernism in Brazil.Through her pensive, delicate, and breathtaking art, Schendel – painter, poet, sculptor – created a new lexicon. Her work was described by late Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos as ‘an art of voids, where the utmost redundance begins to produce original information; an art of words and quasi-words where the graphic form veils and unveils, seals and unseals…a semiotic art of icons, indexes, symbols which print on the blank of the page their luminous foam’.
Hauser & Wirth
