- Editorial:
- ALIAS
- Año de edición:
- 2009
- ISBN:
- 978-607-7818-07-6
- Páginas:
- 336
- Encuadernación:
- Otros
HELIO OITICICA
OITICICA, HELIO
Hélio Oiticica was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1937; Despite being well known in Brazil, it was after a large installation at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1969 that he gradually began to be recognized internationally as one of the most profound and adventurous artists of recent times. Oiticica was both an artist and a thinker. Boldly placing himself between the avant-garde, Brazilian popular culture, the realities of "underdevelopment" and the radicalism of the sixties, he made a deep reflection on the themes related to "art", "invention" and "freedom" in our contemporary world. In the pages of this book you will find many of the texts that the artist wrote to understand and communicate his work, They are therefore writings linked to his work in which he energetically develops his points of view on art and culture, from which he analyzes the Brazilian social reality immersed in the economic and social oppression of the globalized world. Likewise, it contains essays that friends and critics wrote for the original edition, published in parallel to the realization of the first major retrospective of the artist, in 1992. --Publisher's website.