lunes, febrero 21, 2005
Hélio Oiticica's 1960s Aesthetic of Subversion and Cultural Contamination
Hélio Oiticica's 1960s Aesthetic of Subversion and Cultural Contamination
"...In the late 1950s, in a process both analogous and complementary to Clark's, Oiticica moved away from optical/pictorial investigations by incorporating time and movement as an active element of his work. His participatory strategies, however, contrast with Clark's in their engagement of the viewer's cultural, social, architectural and environmental space. Color had, in Oiticica's early development, the same importance that edges had for Clark in her transit from pictorial to three-dimensional space. As he explored the relations between color, time, structure and space, Oiticica stated that color frees itself from the rectangle and from representation and "it tends to 'in-corporate' itself; it becomes temporal, creates its own structure, so the work then becomes the 'body of color..."
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/osthoff/osthoffpt2.html
"...In the late 1950s, in a process both analogous and complementary to Clark's, Oiticica moved away from optical/pictorial investigations by incorporating time and movement as an active element of his work. His participatory strategies, however, contrast with Clark's in their engagement of the viewer's cultural, social, architectural and environmental space. Color had, in Oiticica's early development, the same importance that edges had for Clark in her transit from pictorial to three-dimensional space. As he explored the relations between color, time, structure and space, Oiticica stated that color frees itself from the rectangle and from representation and "it tends to 'in-corporate' itself; it becomes temporal, creates its own structure, so the work then becomes the 'body of color..."
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/osthoff/osthoffpt2.html
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