Hélio Oiticica: To Organize
Delirium is the first full-scale U.S. retrospective in two decades of the
Brazilian artist’s work. One of the most original artists of the twentieth
century, Oiticica (1937—1980) made art that awakens us to our bodies, our senses,
our feelings about being in the world: art that challenges us to assume a more
active role. Beginning with geometric investigations in painting and drawing,
Oiticica soon shifted to sculpture, architectural installations, writing, film,
and large-scale environments of an increasingly immersive nature, works that
transformed the viewer from a spectator into an active participant.
The
exhibition includes some of his large-scale installations, including Tropicalia
and Eden, and examines the artist’s involvement with music and literature, as
well as his response to politics and the social environment. The show captures
the excitement, complexity, and activist nature of Oiticica’s art, focusing in
particular on the decisive period he spent in New York in the 1970s, where he
was stimulated by the art, music, poetry, and theater scenes. While Oiticica
engaged at first with many of the city’s artists, he ended up living in
self-fashioned isolation before returning to Brazil. He died in Rio de Janeiro,
in 1980, at the age of 42.
This exhibition is
organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh; and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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