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LYDIA OKUMURA 1948, Sﾃグ PAULO, BRAZIL
1973 She obtains B.A. from FAAP , while participating in competitions, in museums in Campinas, São Paulo and SP Biennal. As Equipe3, with Francisco Inarra and Genilson Soares, elaborated large projects such as "Points of View", leading them to exhibit at the Studio Actual Gallery in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1975, and at the Cranbrook Academy of Arts in Michigan, USA, in 1979. 1976 In New York she attends the Pratt Graphics Center in Manhattan, producing graphics with images of ephemeral installations, receiving the "Annual Award" 1977 She participates at the Biennial of São Paulo, with the work "In Front of Light”, a large graphics installation. The piece had 7 triangular glass planes arranged in the shape of a fish bone, suspended by ropes attached on a wall, and resting on the floor. Other walls of the room displayed large formatted works on paper. Long parallel graphite lines scratched through the entire floor imitated wood floor and completed the idea of multidimensionality, and it was awarded a Biennial Prize. 1978 Her work continued to evolve as site–specific installations in galleries, apartments and offices, in New York, Tokyo, Osaka, Medellin and São Paulo. 1981 She received the invitation to participate in the Medellin Biennial, in Colombia, with an installation in a special room, and in New York she participated in a collective at PS1, in Queens, NY, with a corner piece. 1991 By indication of the sculptor Yutaka Toyota based in São Paulo, She had an exhibition of large paintings in acrylic on canvas, at Kate Gallery in São Paulo, with presentation of two Japanese art critics, Ichiro Hariu and Takeshi Kanazawa. 2014 Revisiting the art of the 70s, the Galeria Jaqueline Martins in São Paulo exhibits documents of Equipe3, and Isobel Whitelegg curates the reake of the installation "Points of View" from the 1973 SP Biennial, at the Museu do Solar da Marquesa de Santos. In New York, her work continued to be shown at the Broadway1602 Gallery in New York. In addition to the Metropolitan Museum of New York, her works are part of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Kobe, The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japan; The Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum of Santiago, Chile, Akron Museum of Art, Ohio, Contemporary Graphic Art Collection, Friedrikstadt, Norway; Museo de Belas Artes, Caracas; Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo; Museum de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; Museu de Arte Contemporaneo da Universidade de São Paulo; Itamaraty Palace Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brasilia. 2015 Metáforas Construidas, Galeria La Cometa, Bogotá Colombia
El título de la obra para la Galería La Cometa en Bogotá es "Delante de la Luz, 1977-2015," y se trata de un remake. En la Bienal de Sao Paulo en 1977, la primera vez que hice esta obra en la parte posterior de un cuarto grande, usando el panel de madera y el suelo de cemento como apoyo de las siete piezas de cristal tallado en forma de triángulo, la cuerda, la pintura y al raspar el suelo con grafito, la llamé "Delante de la Luz", ya que estaba en frente de la pared de vidrio de la arquitectura de la Bienal, y también en alusión a la luz que se filtraba a través de las uniones de los paneles de madera negra que había añadido encima del panel existente, con el fin de aumentar la altura del montaje. En las paredes a ambos lados del gran cuarto exhibí mis grandes obras gráficas - acrílicos y grafito sobre papel, enmarcados en grupos de 9 y 4 hojas de papel, dispuestos en diferentes formas, y litografías de hojas sueltas pintadas a mano, con imágenes fotográficas que representan espacios interiores. -Dibujé líneas paralelas con grafito grueso en todo el suelo de cemento gris de la habitación, que imitaba el suelo de madera y todo el lugar se convirtió en una instalación gráfica. En el Centro Cultural de Sao Paulo en junio/julio de 2015, también utilicé las piezas de vidrio triangulares suspendidas por cuerdas fijadas en la pared pintada apoyada en el piso de concreto. En el piso de color gris frente a la pieza, usé palitos de aceite blanco para dibujar líneas paralelas con el fin de acentuar la profundidad del escenario, y agregarle un toque humano delicado. Simbólicamente, traté de llevar la luz de la parte posterior del escenario, al frente del escenario, y desarrollar el lenguaje de la armonía y el orden, en una forma sencilla, lo que permite la imaginación y la reflexión acerca de un universo infinito multidimensional. Lydia Okumura, Nueva York, 21 de agosto de 2015.
The title of the work for the Galeria La Cometa in Bogota is "In Front of Light, 1977-2015", and it is a remake. At the São Paulo Biennale in 1977, when I first made this piece at the rear of a large room, using the wooden panel and the concrete floor as support for the 7 pieces of triangle cut glass, rope, paint and by scratching with graphite on the floor, I called it "In Front of the Light”, because it was in front of the glass wall of the architecture of the Biennial, and also alluding to the crack of light showing through the joints of the black wood panels that I had added on top of the existing panel, in order to increase the height of the installation. On the walls on both sides of the large room I displayed my large graphic works - acrylics and graphite on paper, framed in sets of 9 and 4 sheets of paper, arranged in different ways, and hand colored single-sheet lithographs, with photo images depicting interior spaces. I drew parallel lines with thick graphite on the entire gray concrete floor of the room, which imitated wooden floor, and the entire room became a graphics installation. At the Cultural Center of São Paulo in June/July of 2015, I also used the triangular glass pieces suspended by cords fixed on the painted wall supported on the concrete floor. On the gray floor in front of the piece, I used white oil sticks to draw parallel lines in order to accentuate the depth of the stage, and adding to it a delicate human touch. Symbolically, I tried to bring the light from the back of the stage, to the front of the stage, and developing a language of harmony and order, in a simple form, allowing imagination and reflection about an infinite multidimensional universe. Lydia Okumura, NY, August 21, 2015.
ANDREY ZIGNNATTO 1 9 8 1 , J U N D I A Í , B R A Z I L