Ultrapassado - Part 1

LENORA DE BARROS (Sao Paulo/New York, *1953)

GINA PANE (Paris, 1939-1990)

ROSEMARIE CASTORO (New York, *1939)

BARBRO ÖSTLIHN (Stockholm, NY, Paris, 1930-1995)

LYGIA PAPE (Rio de Janeiro, 1927-2004)

DORA MAURER (Budapest, *1937)

LYDIA OKUMURA (Sao Paulo/New York, *1948)

PALOMA BOSQUE (Sao Paulo, *1984)

SAMIA HALABY (New York, *1936)

This show takes its title from a text painting by Brazilian artist Lenora de Barros. In Portuguese ULTRAPASSADO translates into the idea of exceeding, transcending, overcoming.

This exhibition explores the highly formulated and transitional status of geometrical abstraction in the work of women artists from three generations: beginning with Neoconcrete works from the 1950s of Lygia Pape, to Minimal and Color Field works from the 1960s by Rosemarie Castoro, Gina Pane, to Post-Concretist installations and text pieces from the 1970s by Lenora de Barros, the 1970s and 80s abstract pattern paintings of Barbro Östlihn who had developed a very particular form of Pop Art influenced abstraction, to the contemporary formulations of this history by Paloma Bosque.