![]() ![]() He drew lots of inspiration from the architecture, from the colours of those places but mostly from the movement, the dance and the personality. He made friends with members of the Samba dance school in Mangueira. Some of the earth that Oiticica placed in the 'Bólides' were taken from places like Mangueira, one of the largest favelas in Rio de Janeiro. In the early 1960s, Oiticica developed a new kind of sculpture, what he called 'Bólides', or fireballs, and these were boxes that were constructed with little drawers and interactive elements that the artist would put earth, or different kinds of found materials inside. Michael Wellen: In the 1950s, Oiticica started as a geometric painter, he was making very rigorous, very small paintings usually on cardboard. It's about the image of Brazil and trying to confront a stereotype of Brazil as a tropical paradise.Ĭaetano Veloso: It was unbelievable because it was this little tropical labyrinth and I thought it was really very much like what we were trying to do in in popular music and it was like a visual expression of our feelings, at least my feelings. ![]() Michael Wellen: 'Tropicália' is one of Oiticica's his best-known works. It's an artwork by this artist, Hélio Oiticica, and it's so much like it that you should name this song 'Tropicália'. I will be showing an environmental manifestation that I have already planned and I named it 'Tropicália'.Ĭaetano Veloso: The very word 'Tropicália' came to me because of a song that I had written in 1967 and a friend of mine who was a filmmaker, he heard the song and he said 'This felt so much like something Isaw in Rio'. Hélio Oiticica: Dear Guy, I have received your letter and I'm very enthusiastic about the news concerning the possibility of an exhibit. Over time, that led to some of the most radical breakouts of what art could be. Michael Wellen: The idea was for an art that could be participatory, that could be immersive and that would give the public the freedom to move and to interact in a new world and in a new way. Jill Drower: 'Tropicália' was a creative explosion and it was a political movement wrapped into one. Michael Wellen: Oiticica was someone who was always pushing against trends, pushing against being contained, whether it was by the market or by a museum or by a nation.Ĭaetano Veloso: Everything that Hélio was doing was like the most radical response to the lack of liberty and the lack of respect to liberty. ![]()
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