Helio Oiticica and Neville DAlmeida
Helio Oiticica and Neville DAlmeida An illustrated study that casts a new light on Oiticica's most important work of "quasi-cinema" on its fortieth anniversary.H lio Oiticica (1937-1980) occupies a…
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Helio Oiticica and Neville DAlmeida
An illustrated study that casts a new light on Oiticica's most important work of "quasi-cinema" on its fortieth anniversary.H lio Oiticica (1937-1980) occupies a central position in the Latin American avant-garde of the postwar era. Building on the idea for a film by Brazilian underground filmmaker Neville D'Almeida, Oiticica developed the concept for Block-Experiments in Cosmococa--Program in Progress (1973-1974) as an "open program" a series of nine proposals for environments, each consisting of slide projections, soundtracks, leisure facilities, drawings (with cocaine used as pigment), and instructions for visitors. It is the Associated with the Rio de Janeiro-based neo-concretist movement at the beginning of his career, Oiticica moved from object production to the creation of chromatically opulent and sensually engulfing large-scale installations or wearable garments.