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Hélio Oiticica (Brazilian, 1937 – 19809)

最近、彼の作品のコレクションが、すべても燃えてしまったそうです．もうほとんど現物が残っていないとか．
食堂でしゃべっててその話を聞いたので、載せておきます．
http://images.google.co.jp/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tate.org.uk/images/cms/12143w_helio_living_instudio.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue10/helio_livingcolour.htm&usg=__e0GLmGcy23141NFWlk8C7fd5TQc=&h=469&w=484&sz=71&hl=ja&start=5&um=1&tbnid=4W9I82fwQymMRM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhelio%2Boiticica%26hl%3Dja%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:ja-JP-mac:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
時間がないので、ノートということで・・

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 established the short-lived Grupo Neoconcreto with the artists Amílcar de Castro, Lygia Clark and Franz Weissmann. This disbanded in 1961.

Colour became a key subject of Oiticica’s work and he experimented with paintings and hanging wooden sculptures with subtle (sometimes barely perceptible) differences in colour within or between the sections. The hanging sculptures gradually grew in scale and later works consisted on many hanging sections forming the overall work, as a spatial development of his first experiments with paintin

24. October 2009 by hagisan
Categories: 60's, Brazil, Minimal, painting | 1 comment