Böcker av Hélio Oiticica

Encontros is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, it provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Hélio Oiticica is internationally recognized as an artist of the first magnitude. His work and thought continue to influence the best of our cultural production. By bringing together his main interviews and statements in an unprecedented way, this book is a fundamental document for understanding his trajectory and our recent history.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. Hélio Oiticica was one of the most powerful thinkers on contemporary art in Brazil. In the essays collected in this volume, Oiticica proposes and performs, as Mário Pedrosa has said, an "experimental exercise of freedom" by presenting his most important creations, such as the Bólides, the Parangolés, and the Penetráveis, which allowed the artist to think in a seminal way about environmental art.

A concise introduction to the pioneering formal and social innovations of the Neoconcretist and Tropicália protagonistBrazilian artist Hélio Oiticica's (1937-80) oeuvre remains an indisputable influence on all aspects of avant-garde culture in his home country and abroad, from visual art to music, theater, literature and beyond. This volume demonstrates the numerous ways in which Oiticica's work explored and expanded formal artistic modes, pushing past the boundaries of color and structure. Oiticica prioritized the inclusive and participatory possibilities of art, represented through his forays into environmental art and interactive installation. Large-scale projects such as his monumental installation Tropicália (1966-67), which satirizes the idea of Brazil as a tropical paradise, are documented alongside his works on paper and textile pieces. The text traces the evolution of Oiticica's multidisciplinary practice and underlines the cosmological ideas that guided his approach to art and life, demonstrating the profound impact Oiticica's ideas had on the wider art world, both past and present.