Lygia Pape

Geometry as ritual

Lygia Pape was a Brazilian artist associated with Neo-Concrete art. Her practice spans sculpture, film, installation, and printmaking. Works such as “Ttéia” use shimmering threads arranged in geometric volumes, transforming space into luminous, almost sacred environments. Earlier woodcuts and bookworks explore the tactile and poetic dimensions of form.

Pape emphasized viewer experience, using geometry not as rigid system but as sensorial field.

Lygia Pape was a Brazilian Neo-Concrete artist known for immersive geometric installations and sensorial abstraction.

Lygia Pape was a Brazilian artist known for geometric installations—especially “Ttéia”—that transform space into luminous, participatory experience.

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