Neo-Concrete Art

ネオ・コンクリート・アート / 1959–1966 / Style / Brazilian Avant-garde

Releases geometric abstraction from a fixed visual order and opens the work to touching, moving and entering, so that it becomes an experience that changes as the body takes part.

Neo-Concrete Art — Lygia Clark, Bicho（CC BY-SA 4.0） — Lygia Clark, Bicho（CC BY-SA 4.0） · CC BY-SA 4.0

Neo-Concrete Art — Oiticica exhibition（CC BY 2.0） · © Billie Grace Ward from New York, USA — Oiticica exhibition（CC BY 2.0） · CC BY 2.0 · © Billie Grace Ward from New York, USA

Neo-Concrete Art — アミルカル・デ・カストロの彫刻サンパウロ大学現代美術館 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0 · © Dornicke — アミルカル・デ・カストロの彫刻サンパウロ大学現代美術館 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0 · CC BY 3.0 · © Dornicke

At a glance

Visual cues

Movable geometry
Bodily participation
Folds and hinges
Sensuous color and space

Best used for

Interactive exhibits and teaching objects that visitors are meant to open and move
Printed pieces and invitations that change shape through folds and hinges

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Dictionary entry

Type: Run type across the fold so it resolves only when opened
Composition: Design several valid states rather than one, reached by opening or turning
Material: Thin metal or board with hinges tuned to move under the hand's weight
Caution: Read it through the revolt against objectivism and the transformation the viewer's body performs, not as Brazilian geometric abstraction, and note that fragile moving parts go untouched and leave only ornament.
Further study: Lygia Clark / Hélio Oiticica / Lygia Pape / Manifesto Neoconcreto

Related entries

De Stijl (デ・ステイル)Editorially linked for a useful contrast.Compare Neo-Concrete Art and De Stijl
Tropicália (トロピカリア)Same Brazilian Avant-garde lineage.Compare Neo-Concrete Art and Tropicália

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