Helio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida - Block-Experiments in Cosmococa-Program in Progress (Buchmann Sabeth (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna))(Paperback / softback)

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. 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. 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
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