Helio Oiticica: Quasi-Cinemas.KOLNISCHER KUNSTVEREIN Brazilian constructivist con·struc·tiv·ism n. A movement in modern art originating in Moscow in 1920 and characterized by the use of industrial materials such as glass, sheet metal, and plastic to create nonrepresentational, often geometric objects. Helio Oiticica's interactive sculptures and environments get plenty of international attention, but this show should enlarge perspective on the artist's playfully experimental form--and seriously politicized content--by highlighting, his little-discussed photo-based film work. Curator Carlos Basualdo focuses on the "quasi-cinema" slide-shows Oiticica organized in the '70s. Rarely exhibited, the Cosmococcas--projected images of pop icons superimposed su·per·im·pose tr.v. su·per·im·posed, su·per·im·pos·ing, su·per·im·pos·es 1. To lay or place (something) on or over something else. 2. with drawings done in cocaine--will be shown here alongside Oiticica's single directorial adventure, his 1972 Agripina e Roma Manhattan, shot in Super-8. Apr. 28-June II; New Museum of Contemporary Art This article is about New Museum of Contemporary Art. For other Museums named Museum of Contemporary Art, see Museum of Contemporary Art. The New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Oct. 2001. |
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