MUSICA Y ARTE

“Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) is the main figure here, an artist whose work persistently referenced architecture and was itself built on an architectural scale, but stood in critical relation to it; his extensive published writings also make clear his long-standing interest in both the favela and broader theories of liberation”1

“A finales de loS años 60, Tropicália fue un movimiento musical brasileño de intención renovadora. El movimiento debe su nombre a Caetano Veloso, […] lo tomó de una instalación y desarrollo conceptual llamado Tropicália de Hélio Oiticica, un artista de vanguardia de ideas anarquistas.”2

“In Sao Paulo, Arquitetura Nova took the prevailing ideas of liberation as a starting point […] Even they struggled with the limits of professional architecture practice, however, and, as we shall see, their activities dissolved variously into painting, theatre and terrorism. […] But they were tougher and grimmer, realistic rather than idealistic; There was little of the hippyish idealism found in Oiticica”1

1 Richard J. Williams , Brazil, Reaktion Books Ltd London 2009

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