Lygia Pape

'Magnetized Space' is a slimmed-down incarnation of a sprawling retrospective of the work of Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927-2004), first shown at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Spanning 50 years of fervent experimentation - a heaving mass of work that at once challenges mediums and politics, expands abstraction to encompass sensuality and emotion, and was made through both personal and collective effort - it's a stretch to contain the breadth of this artist's practice. Still, the Serpentine's selection is astute.

Bringing together early examples of drawings and prints from her '50s Concrete period, alongside her Neo-Concrete object series, and later performances, one is struck by an incredible vitality. Loud, amorous and bright, Pape's super-heated works jump from the wall, or draw you close, both talking of, and invoking, a desire to create or to take part.

Reflecting her early explorations, Pape's black-and-white woodcut prints and ink drawings introduce the immediacy felt elsewhere. Rhythmic optical patterns reach from the paper, rotating and synching with incredible efficacy. Seminal 1963 work 'Livro Do Tempo (Book of Time)' extends these investigations, adorning a wall with 365 wooden objects, each depicting a unique geometrical arrangement. When amassed, these tactile forms encourage you to walk their length, accumulating thoughts of days, months, diary pages, and other personal forms of marking time.

Pairing the spatial studies of her early work with the more carnal, impassioned inventions of her latter years, the main installation, 'Tteia (Web)' (2011), fills the blacked-out central gallery with shafts of golden light. Angular columns of thread carve-up the space, criss-crossing past one another and drawing the viewer in with optical play. This arresting piece builds upon the sense of creative desire gleaned elsewhere, matching repetitive linear forms with thoughts of the coveted or spiritual.