Untiltled (From the series 'Toquinhos')
A delicate and contemplative work by Brazilian-Swiss artist Mira Schendel, this untitled piece from her *Toquinhos* series reflects her enduring fascination with language, materiality, and the metaphysical. The *Toquinhos* works, created in the 1970s, typically feature small, intimate forms — often thin acrylic rods or strips embedded with letters or marks — that hover between sculpture and drawing. Through this reductive yet poetic approach, Schendel explores the tension between presence and absence, weight and transparency, word and silence.
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May 23, 2016
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1973
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Born in Zurich and later studying in Milan, Mira Schendel immigrated to São Paulo in 1949, where she began her artistic career in earnest. She found Brazil ripe for artistic innovation, both thanks to the community of European émigrés living there during this time, as well as the exploration of abstraction being led by Brazilian artists like Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica.
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