In the midst of this genre confusion the run-of-the-mill viewer may find it a little harder to fathom order. Many of these objects escape known art genres and fall into new categories Hélio Oiticica’s current exhibit The Body of Color at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston may tempt the viewer to agree with writers who have called his art “ordered delirium.” 1 On the one hand there is forethought and calculation on the other, spontaneity and a crescendo of forms and colors (pink, yellow, orange, red, etc.) incarnated in a variety of objects. Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,Īnecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week. Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography, Lead Donors to Crocker Expansion Project Announced Open House, Christie's Sale of Post-War & Contemporary Art World Auction Record Set for Comic Painting at Bonhams The Harcourt Miniature Sells for GBP535,200 Jean Prouvé's Prototype Maison Tropicale Sells For $4.9 M Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Colour at Tate Modern ![]() Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Colour will be at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (10 December 2006 - 1 April 2007) and travel to Tate Modern, London (6 June - 23 September 2007). The concept of the exhibition has been conceived by Mari Carmen Ramirez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and Director, InternationalCenter for the Arts of the Americas, MFAH. Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Colour is organised by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in collaboration with Tate Modern. The coloured capes, tents and banners of the Parangolés, were worn by members of the audience who moved to the rhythm of samba, activating and enacting the illusion of colour-in-motion. Oiticica combined colour with rhythm, music, and performance to stimulate visual and tactile sensations, drawing in and involving his audience. In the Bolides, Oiticica began the gradual dematerialisation of colour into pure sensory stimuli which would reach a climax with the Parangolés. Oiticicas most radical use of colour is found in the Bolides (1963-69), boxes or bottles containing pigment, foam, mirrors, shells, earth, fabric and poetry, and in the Parangolés (1964-79),cloth-objects that he described as habitable paintings. Comprising over thirty paintings suspended from the ceiling, the work will occupy the large central gallery of the exhibition at Tate Modern. A highlight of the exhibition is the fully restored, complete version of Oiticicas incredible Grand Nucleus (1960-68). The exhibition will feature Spatial Reliefs (1960), Bilaterals (1959) and Nuclei (1960-66), works which the viewer is invited to move in and around and to discover colour as a physical body or environment. This is followed by the extraordinary series of Metaesquemas, monochromatic grids of uneven abstract forms painted on board(1957-58), and a group of white on white paintings, never previously shown together. This exhibition will feature works from Oiticicas early career, such as the paintings and gouaches made with the Rio de Janeiro-based Grupo Frente (1955-56), which show an obvious affinity with masters of modernism such as Paul Klee, Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian. From abstract compositions to early environmental installations, the exhibition will trace the way in which the artist deconstructed the traditional elements of painting colour and the two-dimensional plane that supports it reconfiguring them in new, innovative forms, and eventually liberating colour into space. Oiticica produced a remarkable body of work throughout his career in which he continually sought to challenge the way in which art could be experienced. The exhibition includes more than 150 works paintings and works on paper, reliefs and sculptural objects as well as installations and environments. Opening on 6 June at Tate Modern, Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Colour will also be the first large-scale exhibition of Oiticicas work for over 35 years in the UK. ![]() ![]() Colour was central to his practice and thiswill be the first exhibition to focus on this key element in his work. Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) was one of the most innovative Brazilian artists of his generation. LONDON.- Tate Modern presents Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Colour, on view through September 23, 2007.
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