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| Author(s): |
Sara Cristiane Jara Grubert
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2006-12-19 |
| Examining board members: |
Fabio Lopes de Souza Santos;
Miguel Antonio Buzzar;
Agnaldo Aricê Caldas Farias
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| Advisor: | Fabio Lopes de Souza Santos |
| Abstract | |
This paper is about the artistic path of Hélio Oiticica, who strove to understand and reformulate the artist´s profile, his place and role in society. It was this constant and methodical process of reflection and experimentation that led him to expand the limits of traditional artistic bases, especially from the mid-sixties. It is enhanced the importance of Oiticica´s formation at Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro towards his later performance, open to the dialogue with a wider context of debates and reflection which extrapolated the artistic limit and enabled, from his artistic proposition, spaces for public debate to be created. From Bólides (1963), Oiticica was led to search for new alternatives, restructuring and even re-semanticizing his previous propositions. A crisis in the wide project of modernization, which also reached the cultural institutions, was evident. At the core of this crisis, several events gained force: the collective protests, the proposal of reformulation of a vanguard, the invention of tropicália, its institutionalization in tropicalismo, and the dissolution of the cultural scene promoted by AI-5 during the military dictatorship. A parallel is also drawn between the ideas of marginality and underground. In Hélio Oiticica´s path, both appear as a form of opposition to the established order, proposing the free thought and the subject´s de-conditioning, concepts developed in the period he spent in New York. Once there, Oiticica arrived at the formulation that Brazil would be automatically underground; concluding that we would be condemned to a paradox between an under-professionalized art market and a total freedom of creation. It was proved, then, the limit of his artistic path that broke the barrier between art and life, with the purpose of rescuing his critical potentiality. (AU) | |