Word: lygia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gallery C extended a warm, week-long invitation to ignore this mandate. From Paris, Sculptor Lygia Clark imported two powder-blue space suits of her own design. After a man and a woman entered the suits and Miss Clark sealed the sightless helmets, the occupants found that their only access to each other was through zippered pockets strategically located over the erogenous zones. When the man opened one of her pockets, he felt a hairy male chest rather than a soft female bosom; the woman, in turn, reached out to touch a rubber breast. Somewhat south of these pockets were...
...this indefinable "body sensation" that haunts all of the new art, in one way or another, and brings the best of it stingingly alive. Even David Lee's clear sheets require a body moving between them to make the composition complete. "What I am doing," reflects Lygia Clark, "could almost be called art for the blind, but for the rest of us it is important too. We do everything so automatically that we have forgotten the poignancy of smell, of physical anguish, of tactile sensations of all kinds...
EBREIA GUIMARAES LYGIA MOURA Indianapolis...