HÉLIO OITICICA

was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, painter, performance artist, theorist, writer, and filmmaker. He best known for his innovative use of color and for “environmental art” during the Neo-Concrete Movement.

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A text translated by Laura Harris.

Catalogue Bienal de São Paulo.

Those photos were taken by Hélio Oiticica. He is the only friend I took to the South Bronx to meet my friends of the gangs, specially Charly, the president of the ghetto brother, who wrote a great book I dream to get published.