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- Year
- 1960
- Artist
- Hélio Oiticica
Artist
Painting
Hélio Oiticica was a Brazilian artist and theorist who dismantled the boundary between artwork and viewer through immersive, participatory environments. Beginning with geometric abstractions in the 1950s, he evolved toward experiential installations he called Penetrables and Parangolés, fabric structures and wearable garments designed to be inhabited and moved through. His practice rejected the autonomy of the art object in favor of sensory engagement and collective experience, positioning the body as both medium and site of aesthetic encounter. Oiticica's radical reframing of artistic participation became foundational to postwar experimental art practice.
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Invenção da cor, Penetrável Magic square n.5, De luxe
1977 · metal
The afternoon almost evening
1973 · Cibachrome prints pasted on paper
Mangue Bangú – excerpt from “Homage to Father” (Mangue Bangú – excerto de “Homage to father”)
1972 · Screenprint
Subterranean Tropicália Projects: PN10, PN11, PN12 and PN13
1971 · Corrugated cardboard, cardboard, yellow cellophane, shredded paper, and plastic mesh
Tropicália, Penetrables PN 2 ‘Purity is a myth’ and PN 3 ‘Imagetical’
1966 · Wooden frames, cotton fabric, plastic sheets, carpet, nylon fabric, patchouli root, cinnamon sticks, sand, plants, metal
B17 Glass Bólide 05 ‘Homage to Mondrian’
1965 · Glass, textile, water, pigment and cork
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- Hélio Oiticica
- Year
- 1960
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- WW-1960-554160
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