{"id":322759,"date":"2022-12-23T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T13:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=322759"},"modified":"2022-12-27T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T18:59:07","slug":"sao-paulo-museum-of-art-exhibits-oeuvre-of-judith-lauand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/sao-paulo-museum-of-art-exhibits-oeuvre-of-judith-lauand\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e3o Paulo Museum of Art exhibits oeuvre of Judith Lauand"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The largest exhibition ever devoted to the oeuvre of Brazilian artist of Syrian Lebanese descent Judith Lauand is on display at the S\u00e3o Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) until April 2. Lauand was Brazil\u2019s first concrete artist. Born on May 26, 1922, in Pontal, S\u00e3o Paulo, Judith is the daughter of a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother. They moved to Araraquara when she was 1 year old. Judith died on December 9 this year, after turning 100, a few days after the opening of her exhibition at MASP, called Judith Lauand: Concrete Deviation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The artist produced for over 70 years. The exhibition at the most prestigious museum in S\u00e3o Paulo reviews the career of Laudan, who was the only woman to tale part of Grupo Ruptura [Rupture Group], which gathered artists who wanted to advance concrete art in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Her oeuvre has often been overlooked by Brazilian art critics. The retrospective of her career path intends to foster new research and debates around her production.<\/p>\n

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Works on display at MASP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Judith Lauand played a central role Brazilian art, especially in the context of the Concrete Movement that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. The exhibition at MASP seeks to put into perspective the transition she made in the mid-1950s to geometric abstraction from a production initially based on Figurative art.<\/p>\n

The exhibition spans six decades with 128 works and dozens of documents from the artist\u2019s personal files.<\/p>\n

Lauand graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Araraquara, a relevant artistic hub in the region. In 1952, she moved to S\u00e3o Paulo with her family, and in 1954 she was a monitor at the 2nd S\u00e3o Paulo International Biennale, a milestone in her education. It was at that point that she learned about the work of artists such as Alexandre Wollner (1928\u20132018) and Geraldo de Barros (1923\u20131998).<\/p>\n

The following year she was invited by Waldemar Cordeiro (1925\u20131973) to join the Grupo Ruptura, being the only woman to actively participate in this historic movement. Lauand took part in the 1st<\/sup> National Exhibition of Concrete Art, first held at S\u00e3o Paulo in 1956, and later at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro in 1957.<\/p>\n

The artist conceived a unique form of dynamism, creating new relationships amongst shapes, lines, and colors, transcending the rules and conventions of the time, the 1950s and 1960s. Later, she opened up to experiments regarding the plane that included unique conversations between image and word, then moved on to work with the materiality of objects on surfaces, using staples, clips, thumbtacks, and other elements.<\/p>\n

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Brazil\u2019s greatest concrete artist died at 100<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite the formal rigor she applied in her compositions, rhythm and movement were never far from her works, which contrast elements through a dynamic balance, creating tensions and ruptures, another aspect of her artistic uniqueness.<\/p>\n

The show also addresses new perspectives in her oeuvre, reinforcing the role of political issues such as the repression of the military dictatorship in Brazil, the Vietnam War, and the social condition of Brazilian women, when the artist crosses themes such as violence, sexuality, submission, and female freedom.<\/p>\n

Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) Cultural director Silvia Antibas visited the exhibition. She said the show is \u201ca review of the art of Judith Lauand\u201d and adds that MASP will start a research center focused on her oeuvre. \u201cHer vanguardism is worth stressing, as a daughter of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants that worked in Brazil\u2019s art avant-garde,\u201d Antibas said.<\/p>\n

Judith Lauand\u2019s exhibition is part of MASP\u2019s biennium program devoted to Brazilian Histories in 2021\u201322, coinciding with the bicentennial of the Independence of Brazil in 2022.<\/p>\n

The catalog has been published in Portuguese and English; it is illustrated, with unpublished essays. Concrete Deviation <\/em>is curated by Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director of MASP, and Fernando Oliva, the museum\u2019s curator, with assistance from Matheus de Andrade, curatorial assistant.<\/p>\n

MASP opens normally on holidays, except December 24 and 25 (Christmas holiday) and December 31 and January 1 (New Year’s holiday).<\/p>\n

Quick facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judith Lauand: Concrete deviation
\nNovember 25, 2022, to April 2, 2023
\nS\u00e3o Paulo Art Museum
\nAvenida Paulista 1578
\nFree Entrance on Tuesdays, from 10 am to 8 pm
\nWednesdays to Sundays, from 10 am to 6 pm
\nTickets for BRL 25 (half price) to BRL 50 (full price)<\/a><\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Isabella Matheus\/MASP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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