Oiticica's Tropicalia
Allen's Small Worlds
NZ artist Jim Allen's "Small Worlds" series (originally created in the late 60's, recreated from drawings for the recent Points of Contact exhbition at the Adam Art Gallery) . The sculptures are designed for interaction, and incorporate aspects of lighting design, textural design and poetry. Originally intended to challenge what Allen thought was a very limiting art world and brought post-object art into NZ. Art took on the role of experience-creating rather than centred on the production of market value.
Allen's works were shown alongside Len Lye's and Helio Oiticica's, both of whom ingeniously create experiences through their artworks. Oiticica in particular had an obsession with creating wildly expressive and colourful live-in gallery environments.
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