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Hélio Oiticica (Undoing the Image 5)

by Éric Alliez

With Jean-Claude Bonne

Translated by Robin Mackay

$24.95 Paperback

72 pp., 7 x 10 in, 10 color illus., 13 b&w illus.

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9781913029982
Published: June 13, 2023
Publisher: Urbanomic

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How Hélio Oiticica, one of the leading artists of Neo-Concretism, presaged the unique trajectory of Brazilian contemporary art with his intensive color-architectures.

At the turn of the 1950s–1960s, one of the leading artists of Neo-Concretism, Hélio Oiticica, presaged the unique trajectory of Brazilian contemporary art with his intensive color-architectures. In the wake of this vivência of “time-color,” which subordinates the aesthetic to the sensorimotor powers of color, Oiticica's transcategorial, transmedia works critically and clinically undermine physical and social architecture, while semiotically subverting the forms of domination exerted by the image.

In this culmination of their reassessment of the relation among art, philosophy, and the contemporary, Éric Alliez and Jean-Claude Bonne show how these works are exemplary not only of a truly diagrammatic thought and practice, but also of the South's resistance against the coldly indifferent globalism endemic to the pacified institutions of contemporary art. Oiticica's tropicalization of the commonplaces of sixties art signals the latent potential of a marginal dissidence from both the aesthetic form of art and the conceptual form of anti-art.

Éric Alliez is a philosopher and Professor at Université Paris 8 and at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. He is author of Capital Times, The Signature of the World: Or, What is Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy?, The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting, and Wars and Capital, with Maurizio Lazzarato (Semiotext(e)), and coeditor of The Guattari Effect and Spheres of Action: Art and Politics (MIT Press).

Jean-Claude Bonne is an art historian and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is author of L'Art roman de face et de profil: Le tympan de Conques, Le Sacre royal à l'époque de Saint-Louis (with Jacques Le Goff), and, with Éric Alliez, La Pensée-Matisse.

Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

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