I have attended an event organised by TrAIN about Mira Schendel Installation at Tate Modern. Exhibition curator Tanya Barson and Dr. Michael Aysbury talked about Brazilian artist and over 270 paintings,drawings and sculptures on display and how this exhibition is curated.After this event I want it to see the exhibition and find out about more this Latin America’s post war artist.
Mira Schendel
Mira Schendel 1919 born in Zürich and brought up in Italy. Due to her Jewish heritage she had to travel to Europe as a refuge in the Second World War,before emigrating to Brazil. Her international background influenced her work.
Her earliest works plays with abstraction, inspired by likes of Paul Klee.Her geometry and bold colour palette works very well.Selection of much smaller in scale works displayed in the exhibition. Some of them originally design as cards for commercial sale.
Mira Schendel experimented with typography and more contemporary materials, such us rice paper.Because of the transparency of the rice paper, her pieces can be viewed variety of ways from front or back.Instillation suspended from the ceiling in a formation that resembles a geometric cloud, each piece open to viewer’s individual interpretation. Very delicate and inspirational works continuous on the other galleries.
Still Waves of Probability featuring thousands of transparent fibres hung from the ceiling and sweeping the floor.Transparent and opaque and sense of stillness that is broken by the slightest movement.
Exhibition is certainly exhaustive, her social and political context and academic influences provides an interesting narrative. International background can be seen to influence her paintings,drawings and sculptures on display. Very overwhelming and her mathematical precision of work is impressive.
Mira Schendel: Untitled, from the series Little Stubs, 1973. Photograph: Mira Schendel Estate
If you want to know more about TrAIN,
http://www.transnational.org.uk/
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/mira-schendel
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