Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
October 7, 2006 – January 28, 2007
Open House: Sunday, October 29, 2 – 6 pm
Free Admission
Tropicália marked a true revolution in Brazilian culture in the 1960s. This exhibition revisits this seminal moment through works by numerous artists including Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, and Antonio Dias; excerpts from performances by the tropicalist musicians including Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, and others; examples of tropicalismo’s influence on advertising, fashion, film, television, architecture, and theater; as well as contemporary works by Matthew Antezzo, Rodrigo Araújo, assume vivid astro focus, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Lucas Levitan and Jailton Moreira, Arto Lindsay, Marepe, Ernesto Neto, Rivane Neuenschwander, and Karin Schneider, and +2 (Moreno Veloso, Domenico Lancellotti, and Alexandre Masset Kassin).
Special events include Xaviera Simmons DJing, performance of Lygia Pape’s Trio do Embalo Maluco
(The Rocking Crazy Trio), and guided tours of the exhibition.
Tropicália is guest-curated by Carlos Basualdo and is co-organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and GabineteCultura, Săo Paulo. The international tour is sponsored by Altria Group, Inc. and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is provided by etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art. The Bronx Museum’s presentation is made possible, in part, by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Special thanks to the Consulate General of Brazil in New York, Sean John, and 33rd and Bird.
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