Estruturas de Caixa de Fósforos (Red Matchbox)

by Lygia Clark

Artist Lygia Clark (Brasilien, 1920 - 1988)

Alternate Title

Tändsticksstrukturer (röda askar)

Date1964

MediumPainted matchboxes

Dimensions5 × 12,4 × 8,3 cm

ClassificationSculptures

Credit LinePurchase 2018 with donated funds

Countries

Brazil

Object NumberMOM/2018/108

CollectionsGeometri

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkLygia Clark was among the group of artists who launched neoconcretism in 1950s Rio de Janeiro. They wanted to take abstract art out of the galleries and closer to life and people. In the early 1960s, Clark gave up painting in favour of interactive sculptures that the viewers could shape themselves. Clark was also deeply interested in architecture and toyed with the idea of a house where the inhabitants could move the walls according to their mood and needs. These red matchboxes have been glued together to resemble a modernist building that can be altered by pushing or pulling the ‘drawers’ in their holders. Clark made some 20 matchbox structures and painted them red, black, white or gold.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Osignerad Selected exhibition history Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm

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