OITICICA, Hélio; ROMERO KEITH, Delmari
Hélio Oiticica. Parangolé

Monographie trilingue (français / anglais / espagnol) dédiée aux Parangolés de l'artiste brésilien Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980), capes-sculptures produites entre 1964 et 1979 unissant l'art à la vie, l'œuvre et le public, l'improvisation à l'orchestration, la révolte politique à la poésie. La recherche menée par Delmari Romero Keith et Marc Pottier plonge dans cette « œuvre anthropophage », en resitue le contexte historique et artistique, au cœur des enjeux des mouvements Dada, Fluxus, Arte Povera et du Nouveau Réalisme, qu'elle bousculent pour installer de nouvelles formes de danse, happenings et performances. [note de l'éditeur]

In this new trilingual (EEnglish / French / Portuguese) book on the late artist Hélio Oititicica, the tension generated between euro-centric and peripheral conceptualisms is put into question, in order to insert his work in the international Neo-Avantgarde logic, where life transits into art, and art into life. The research carried out by Delmari Romero Keith and Marc Pottier validates the idea that vindicates art's power as a social denunciation vehicle and a poetic-politic complaint. This proposal re-dimensions Oiticica's work and positions it beyond conceptual and performative trends. Parangolés rekindle the postmodern allegorical impulse that activates fragments which manifest structures of cancelled imaginary. They are manifestations of atavistic referents, ancestral rituals, and residual memory—appropriated from the Brazilian favelas and the carnival—and links between the rhythms of the body and those of nature. [publishers' note]

Published by Mousse Publishing, 2023
Design by Gloria Favaro
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