The Magnitized Spaces retrospective exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London (until 19 February 2012) is the first major exhibition of the work of the Neo-Concretist Brazilian artist Lygia Pape. It is a wonderful introduction to the work of Pape and indeed Brazilian Art during the 1960s and 1970s.
Eat me is a video cleverly placed at the entrance to the exhibition. With its soft music, it suggests an obscene B movie, but when watched carefully, the man and then the woman's lips, moving slowly and suggestively seem almost playful.
Expressive and colourful wooden blocks punctuate a white wall. They express Pape's Livro do Tempo (Book of Time) made up of so many shifts of colour, rhythms and shapes.
Ttéia 1 (Web) is a spectacularly assembled piece - haunting shafts of light are created by tightly suspended golden threads. They produce a shadowy and complex web in the dark gallery space.
Pape’s works are summary and complex. Though created over fifty years ago, they have not lost their power or relevance. The exhibition will continue to tour, before heading back to Brazil next year.
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