A ESTÉTICA DE HÉLIO OITICICA

Abstract

While developing his environmental program, proposing the establishment of an aesthetic space-time, Hélio Oiticica developed concepts such as Crelazer and Delirium ambulatorium, which mark his difference in relation to the Western tradition of fine arts. Although the beginning of his theorization mentions terms like “transcendent” and “metaphysical”, the artist uses them to point to a beyond-the-art grounded in a politics of aesthetics that is close to what Jacques Rancière defines as the aesthetic regime of art. The article analyzes passages from Hélio Oiticica's diaries, indicating the transformations in the artist’s lexicon throughout his journey toward the formulation of a state of invention.