This month the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, located in downtown San Francisco, will feature "When Lives Become Form," an exhibit composed of contemporary Brazilian art, from the 1960's to the present. The exhibit was originally organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and curated by Yugo Hasegawa. It features work by artists, fashion designers and architects and is strongly influenced by the Tropicalia movement in Brazil. Tropicalia, an artistic movement that arose in the 1960's, celebrated the "originality of the culture of people who live in the tropics."
Helio Oiticica, a central figure of the Tropicalia movement, was inspired by the Brazilian favelas, which he described as "a product of fantastic improvisation in creating a 'vital place' for communicating not form so much as joy." The exhibit features work by the following Brazilian artists: Lina Bo Bardi, Isabela Capeto, Lygia Clark, Neville D'Almeida, and Rogerio Degaki.
On Thursday, November 19th, Director of Visual Arts Betti-Sue Hertz will host a guided tour and more information can be found by visiting Guided Tour with Director of Visual Arts Betti-Sue Hertz and on January 16th, the YCBA will feature a scholars roundtable discussion about the exhibit. See here for more information: When Lives Become Form Scholars Roundtable.
For more information regarding ticket prices and gallery hours please visit www.ybca.org/tickets.
