The
use of text in art has a long history, particularly by painters and of course
illustrators and graphic artists. Often the extent of text displayed makes one
wonder whether the artist considers her/him self as a painter/illustrator/designer
etc. or writer.
Whatever
identity is chosen, it is clear that the work is a piece of performance writing.
One
such artist is being exhibited at Tate Modern from the 25th
September 2013:
Mira Schendel (1919–1988) was one of Latin America’s most
important and prolific post-war artists. With her contemporaries Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Schendel
reinvented the language of European Modernism in Brazil. Tate Modern is staging
the first ever international full-scale survey of her work. The exhibition
reveals aspects of Schendel’s dialogues with a diverse range of philosophers
and thinkers, as well as her engagement with universal ideas of faith,
self-understanding and existence. It brings together over 250 paintings,
drawings and sculptures from across her entire career, including works which
have never been exhibited before.
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'Untitled:
graphic objects series' (d), Mira Schendel, one of the works included in the
first major exhibition in Spain of León Ferrari and Schendel held in the MNCARS (Museo Nacional Centre de Arte Reina Sofia -Madrid)
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