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December 16, 2009
Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas León Ferrari and Mira Schendel: Tangled Alphabets Exh. cat. New York and São Paulo: Museum of Modern Art and Cosac Naify, 2009. 200 pp.; 220 color ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780870707506)

Exhibition schedule: Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 5–June 15, 2009

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.131

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Mira Schendel. Untitled from the series Toquinhos (Little things) (early 1970s). Transfer type and paper on shaped acrylic on acrylic sheet. 16 15/16 x 11 13/16 x 1 3/8" (43 x 30 x 3.5 cm). Private collection. © 2009 Mira Schendel Estate.

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This dual retrospective of Mira Schendel (Brazilian, b. Switzerland, 1919–1988) and Léon Ferrari (Argentine, b. 1920) was without a doubt a major contribution to the expanding canon of experimental art from the sixties. Spanning Schendel’s career from the late 1950s through the late 1980s and Ferrari’s production from the late 1950s through 2007, the two hundred pieces in a variety of media, but predominantly on paper, assembled in the exhibition and exquisitely installed by MoMA...