Img.2 Installation view “Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo Matt Casarella
Img.3 Installation view “Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo Matt Casarella
Img.4 Installation view “Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo Matt Casarella
Img.5 Installation view “Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo Matt Casarella
Img.6 Installation view “Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo Matt Casarella
Img.7 Installation view “Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo Matt Casarella
Img.8 Left: Hélio Oiticica in front of a poster for Neil Simon’s play The Prisoner of Second Avenue, 1972. © César and Claudio Oiticica. Right: Hélio Oiticica, P15 Parangolé Cape 11, I Embody Revolt worn by Nildo of Mangueira, 1967. © César and Claudio Oiticica. Photo Claudio Oiticica
Img.9 Parangolé Cape 30 in the New York City Subway, 1972. Digital projection, dimensions variable. Courtesy of César and Claudio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro
The show captures the excitement, complexity, and activist nature of Oiticica’s art, focusing in particular on the decisive period he spent in New York in the 1970s, where he was stimulated by the art, music, poetry, and theater scenes. While Oiticica engaged at first with many of the city’s artists, he ended up living in self-fashioned isolation before returning to Brazil. He died in Rio de Janeiro, in 1980, at the age of 42.
until 1 October
Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium
Curators: Lynn Zelevansky, Elisabeth Sussman, Sondra Gilman
Whitney Museum of American Art
Gansevoort Street 99, New York