Hélio Oiticica
| Hélio Oiticica | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 26, 1937 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Died | March 22, 1980 (aged 42) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Education | Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, under Ivan Serpa |
| Known for | Painting and sculpture |
| Notable work | Metaesquemas, Bilaterals, Spatial Reliefs, Inventions, Bólides, Parangolés, Penetrables, Tropicália, Eden |
| Movement | Concrete art, Neo-Concrete Movement, Grupo Frente |
Hélio Oiticica (Portuguese: [ˈε.lju ɔj.tʃi.ˈsi.ka]; July 26, 1937 – March 22, 1980) was a Brazilian visual artist, best known for his participation in the Neo-Concrete Movement, for his innovative use of color, and for what he later termed "environmental art", which included Parangolés and Penetrables, like the famous Tropicália.
Oiticica's early works, in the mid-1950s, were greatly influenced by European modern art movements, principally Concrete art and De Stijl. He was a member of Grupo Frente, founded by Ivan Serpa, under whom he had studied painting. His early paintings used a palette of strong, bright primary and secondary colours and geometric shapes influenced by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee and Kazimir Malevich. Oiticica's painting quickly gave way to a much warmer and more subtle palette of oranges, yellows, reds and browns which he maintained, with some exceptions, for the rest of his life.
In 1959, he became involved in the short-lived but influential Neo-Concrete Movement with the artists Amílcar de Castro, Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Franz Weissmann and poet Ferreira Gullar. The Neo-Concrete Movement rejected the objective nature of Concrete Art and sought to use phenomenology to create art that "expresses complex human realities." Neo-Concretism focused creating an awareness within the spectator of his or her spatial relationship with the artwork. The artworks themselves became akin to living organism rather than static forms; they were made to interact with viewers. The group disbanded in 1961. Clark and Oiticica transitioned into Conceptual Art dealing with ideas of the human body and culture. Oiticica was specifically interested in what creates culture.
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