The Organic Line: Irene V. Small in conversation with Sarah Oppenheimer — Book Launch

Irene V. Small in conversation with Sarah Oppenheimer about "The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism," a major rethinking of twentieth-century abstract art mobilized by the work of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark.

In "The Organic Line", Small elucidates the signal discovery of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark in 1954: a fissure of space between material elements that Clark called “the organic line.” More than a history of a little-known artistic device, this book is a user’s guide and manifesto for reimagining modern and contemporary art for the present.

Irene V. Small is a writer and Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University, where she teaches contemporary art and criticism within a global context. Sarah Oppenheimer is an artist and architectural manipulator whose work explores the emergent relations between human and non-human systems. She lives and works in New York, USA, and Rotterdam, NL, and is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University's School of Art.

This talk will take place in MELLY Bookshop/Cantina and will start at 6:30 PM.