Helio Oiticica
The Body of Colour
by Mari Carmen Ramirez ; with texts by Luciano Figueredo ; Helio Oiticica ; Wynne H. Phelan

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Author(s)

Mari Carmen Ramirez, Luciano Figueredo, Helio Oiticica, Wynne H. Phelan

Editor(s)

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Publication, year

London ; Houston : Tate Publishing : The Museum of Fine Arts, 2007

Scope

416 Pages, illustrated, 29 cm.

ISBN

9781854376985

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Published on the occasion of the exhibition at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 10.12.2006-01.04.2007, and at the Tate Modern, London 06.06.-23.09.2007. One the most creative artists of the twentieth century, Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980) played a key role in the Tropicalia movement in Brazil, and in the overall development of Latin American art and culture. The large-scale environments he created toward the end of his career opened up new sensory worlds for gallery visitors, inviting them to take off their shoes and walk in sand or share the exhibition space with live, brilliantly colored tropical parrots.

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Person as subject

Helio Oiticica

Location

Cabinet 6 - 3: Kunstenaars

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References