Published to accompany an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London in January 2015. Working from the artist's archives, this show will feature a large selection of monotypes, which were central to Schendel's artistic career. It will focus on the ideas of writing, invisibility and ephemera.
The book, full of facsimiles of Schendel's delicate monotypes printed on rice paper, fully engages in the Brazilian artist's aesthetic. A text will feature from the exhibition's curator, Taisa Palhares from the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, who acted as a co-curator of the Schendel retrospective that began at Tate Modern in 2013.
Mira Schendel is one of Latin America's most significant and prolific post-war artists who created a vast and unique oeuvre that addressed themes of existence, language and meaning and comprised paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Born in Zurich in 1919, Schendel emigrated to Brazil in 1949, settling in São Paulo, where she was part of an intellectual circle of psychoanalysts, physicists, critics, and philosophers. She died in 1988.