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Relevo espacial

1960
  • Acrylic on wood
size :
62cm
x 148cm
About the work
Provenance

Roberta Oiticica Collection

Literature

Hélio Oiticica, Centro de Art Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, 1996, reproduced p. 54.
Hélio Oiticica, The Body of Colour, Tate Publishing in Association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,reproduced p. 211.

Exhibitions

1964 Galeria G4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1966 Individual exhibition, Galeria G4, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1969 Hélio Oiticica: Retrospective, Whitechapel Gallery, London, U.K
1992 Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
1993 Centro de Arte Moderna Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1994 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A
1997 Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998 Bienal de São Paulo , Brazil
1999 Do Plano ao Espaço, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2003 Hélio Oiticica: Cor, Imagem, Poética. Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2006 Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Color, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2007 Hélio Oiticica: The Body of Color, Tate, London
2008 28th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
Hélio Oiticica: Museu é o mundo, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
Hélio Oiticica: Museu é o mundo, Paço Imperial e Casa França, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hélio Oiticica: Museu é o Mundo Museu, Nacional do Conjunto Cultural da República, Brasília, Brazil
2011 Hélio Oiticica Museu é o Mundo. Museu Histórico do Pará, Fundação Cultural do Pará Tancredo Neves, Museu do Forte doPresépio, Espaço Cultural Casa das 11 Janelas, Estação Docas,Fórum Landi. Belém
2012 Hélio Oiticica Museu é o mundo, The Berardo Collection Museum (Museu Coleção Berardo), Lisbon,Portugal
2016 A Invenção de Hélio Oiticica, UNIFOR, Fortaleza, Brazil

Public Collections:
Collection of Banco Itaú S.A., São Paulo
Collection of The Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro)
Collection of São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo)
Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo (Museu de Arte Contemporânea daUniversidade de São Paulo)
Collection of João Sattamini/MAC - Niterói
Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York, U.S.A
Tate Modern, London, UK.

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Categories & tags
  • Brazilian Art
The artist(s)

Hélio

Hélio Oiticica is a Brazilian Neo-Concrete artist whose work ranges from abstract geometric paintings to large-scale site specific works. His most famous installations, Tropicalia and Eden (1967), Oiticica aims to create a counter-capital, filled with references to Brazilian life through the favelas and the perception of how bodies move in samba through his Penetrables structures. The works exemplify the artist’s interest in how visitors should participate with art and create culture on their own terms. “The museum is the world,” he once remarked. “It is the everyday experience." In 1959, Oiticica became involved in the Neo-Concrete movement alongside artists like Lygia Clark and Franz Weissman. Although the group disbanded a mere two years later, it shaped the future of Conceptual Art and heavily informed the rest of the artist’s career. He would later go on to be one of the founders of a Tropicalia movement, consisting of visual and non-visual artists whose staunch opposition to Brazil’s dictatorship at the time heavily informed their works. Oiticica died on March 22, 1980 at the age of 42 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Tate Modern in London, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others.

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