09.25.2013
Mira Schendel (1919-1988) was one of Latin America's most important and prolific post-war artists. While her most well-known works are delicate monotypes, her work encompassed painting, drawing, collage, sculptural objects, notebooks and installations. With her contemporaries Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Schendel reinvented the language of European Modernism in Brazil.
Tate Modern stages now the first ever international full-scale survey of her work. The exhibition reveals Schendel's dialogues with a diverse range of artists, philosophers and critics, as well as her engagement with universal ideas of faith, self-understanding and existence. It brings together over 250 paintings, prints and sculptures from across her entire career, including works which have never been exhibited before.
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