Word: oiticica
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...catholic collection. Of course, some of the artists in it, such as the Venezuelan Jesus Rafael Soto, 78, have exhibited quite often in the U.S. But most of them are not all that familiar, and the show makes a strong case that some of them--including Brazil's Helio Oiticica (1937-1980) and Lygia Clark (1920-1988), Venezuela's Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912-1994, a sculptor who worked under the name of Gego) and Carlos Cruz-Diez, 78, and of course that long-dead Uruguayan father figure of South American abstraction, Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949)--emphatically ought...
...well-produced orientation video, Meireles likens the place of a Latin-American contemporary artist to the spectator at the back of a movie theater, watching the film and the audience reacting in front of him. So while he and other Latin-American artists like Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica may have had their eyes on the art world, few could see them in the back row. Yet as his retrospective proves, he has consistently engaged, and sometimes foreseen, the same theoretical issues and artistic strategies of his better-known international counterparts. His installations of room corners, whose walls and base...
Florida is raising tung trees with some success. Brazil's oiticica oil is a tung-oil substitute; the U.S. imported 16,000,000 lb. last year. The muru-muru and tucum trees, also Brazil's, are palm substitutes. Venezuela's jungle-grown corozo and macanilla nuts have the quick-lathering qualities of coconut oil. So has the babassu, of which the U.S. imported 63,000,000 Ib. last year, mostly for soap. In fact, of all imported oils still available to the U.S., Brazil's babassu is now the most important for soap-even in Kansas...
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