Poetic Shelter

Lygia Clark · 1964

You're looking at Poetic Shelter — a sculpture by Lygia Clark, nineteen sixty-four. Painted metal — about 14 by 63 centimeters. It is an odd shape for a picture: about 0.6 metres one way and 0.1 the other, so it reads as a band rather than a window. Clark was part of the Antropophagia movement.

Medium Painted metal · Dimensions 5 1/2 x 24 x 20 1/8" (14 x 63 x 51 cm) · Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of Milan Hughston

Hanging beside it in Gallery 507: Spatial Construction no. 12

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Concrete 61, Composition, Painterly Architectonic, Still Life with Flowers, Untitled, Mural Painting

More by Lygia Clark here: Cocoon no. 2