Subterranean Tropicália Projects: PN10, PN11, PN12 and PN13
Catalogue
- Year
- 1971
- Dimensions
- 57.8 × 49.9 × 12.1 cm (22 3/4 × 19 5/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- 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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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
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
P16 Parangolé Cape 12 “From Adversity We Live”
1965 · Jute, fabric, wood shavings, and plastics
B17 Glass Bólide 05 ‘Homage to Mondrian’
1965 · Glass, textile, water, pigment and cork
B11 Box Bólide 09
1964 · Wood, glass and pigment
Record
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- Hélio Oiticica
- Year
- 1971
- Dimensions
- 57.8 × 49.9 × 12.1 cm (22 3/4 × 19 5/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1971-143263
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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