The exhibition is based on the idea of total art, a structural cornerstone of the aesthetic conception of the Museo del Eco, which provides a setting for reflecting on sensory experience as an artistic programme capable of eliciting emotional responses from the viewer. In this regard ‘Eco’ (Echo) refers both to the programme of emotional architecture devised by Mathias Goeritz – with which he challenged the international style of rationalist/functionalist architecture – and to the metaphysical connotations of his oeuvre and his interest in evoking ungraspable ‘distant voices’. In this case the theme ‘evoked’ is the multi-sensorial programme devised by the Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica.
The exhibition begins with a work by Goeritz that brings to mind a religious depiction through the light emanating from a monochrome support. Tropicalia Negra then continues with further reflexions by contemporary artists, some produced specially for this show.
AC/E is collaborating in this project by supporting the participation of the Spanish artists Karmelo Bermejo and Daniel Steegman. Other artists whose works are on display are Erick Beltrán, Alexander Calder, Lygia Clark, Verónica Gerber, Mathias Goeritz, Gabriel de la Mora, Helio Oiticica, Sebastián Romo, Edgar Orlaineta and Alejandro Vidal.
The exhibition begins with a work by Goeritz that brings to mind a religious depiction through the light emanating from a monochrome support. Tropicalia Negra then continues with further reflexions by contemporary artists, some produced specially for this show.
AC/E is collaborating in this project by supporting the participation of the Spanish artists Karmelo Bermejo and Daniel Steegman. Other artists whose works are on display are Erick Beltrán, Alexander Calder, Lygia Clark, Verónica Gerber, Mathias Goeritz, Gabriel de la Mora, Helio Oiticica, Sebastián Romo, Edgar Orlaineta and Alejandro Vidal.