Hélio Oiticica: Quasi-cinemas
Wexner Center for the Arts
The Ohio State University
1871 North High Street
September 18, 2001–December 30, 2002
Kölnischer Kunstverein
Die Brücke
Hahnenstraße 6
February 16–April 4, 2002
New Museum
235 Bowery
July 26–October 13, 2002
In this survey organized by the Wexner and coproduced by the Kölnischer Kunstverein and the New Museum in New York, curator Carlos Basualdo focuses on Hélio Oiticica’s “quasi-cinemas,” photo-based work like the “Block-Experiments in Cosmococa”— projected images of pop figures (Monroe, Hendrix, Buñuel) superimposed with drawings executed in cocaine. The Brazilian Conceptualist’s only film, Agripina e Roma Manhattan, and the slide show Neyrótika, shot in New York, are also being screened. The catalogue offers essays by Basualdo, Brazilian film historian Ivana Bentes, and New Museum senior curator Dan Cameron as well as little-translated writings by the artist.