Ivens Machado is best known for his sculptural work, in which he uses raw materials typical of popular construction, such as concrete, steel rods and broken glass, to name a few. Machado began his career in the 1970s in Rio de Janeiro and is considered one of the most notorious Brazilian “artists’ artist”. Formal and critical coherence runs across his entire oeuvre. His works on paper tap into the highly politically-charged territory of the notebook, therefore of formal knowledge and education. These rarely seen drawings from 1992 deconstruct the rigid logic of the lined paper interrupting its orderly repetition of lines by repeatedly conjuring up the shape of a human figure — intent in some sort of physical exercise — as though it were a manual stamp.