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Brazilian Feminist Pop Artist Wanda Pimentel Dies At 76
Wanda Pimentel, Untitled, from the series “Envolvimento,” 1968.
MARCO TERRANOVA/COURTESY COLEÇÃO MARISA E ARTHUR PEIXOTO, RIO DE JANEIRO AND MUSEU DE ARTE DE SÃO PAULO (MASP), SÃO PAULO
Brazilian Feminist Pop Artist Wanda Pimentel Dies At 76
Wanda Pimentel, the Brazilian Pop artist whose feminist-inflected canvases were included in the lauded recent exhibition “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985,” died on December 23 in Rio de Janeiro. The news was confirmed by her gallerist Anita Schwartz.
Pimentel is best known for her “Envolvimento” series, which she worked on intensely in the late 1960s and continued until 1984. A selection of 27 such works (whose title translates to “entanglement” or “involvement”) were the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) in 2017, as part of the museum’s Year of Sexuality exhibitions.
