Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) was one of the most innovative Brazilian artists of the twentieth century and is now recognised as a highly significant figure in the development of contemporary art. Oiticica produced an outstanding body of work, which had its origins in the legacy of European Modernism as it developed in Brazil in the 1950s. But his unique and radical investigations led Oiticica to develop his artistic production in ever more inventive directions.
Through his work he was to challenge the traditional boundaries of art, and its relationship with life, and to undermine the separation of the art-object from the viewer, whom he turned into an active participant. Among Oiticica's most original achievements was his inventive and uncompromising use of colour.
Text by Ann Gallagher
And Part 1 of HO (1979, Ivan Cardoso)
Part 2
What? It's summer.
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