Your Concise New York Art Guide for May 2022
Your Concise New York Art Guide for May 2022
Hyperallergic features Hélio Oiticica: Subterranean Tropicália Projects: PN15 1971/2022, Americas Society's collaboration with Socrates Sculpture Park.
May in New York is chock-full of art fairs and arts programming, and the city’s galleries and museums are keeping pace by bringing the heat. This month, Hélio Oiticica’s radical plans for an immersive outdoor sculptural installation conceived in 1971 are finally realized; intertwined corporeal shapeshifters Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge are honored with their first major posthumous solo exhibition; and six decades of Cecilia Vicuña’s work across media will be on view in — bafflingly — her inaugural New York museum solo show. Enjoy and be safe. […]
Hélio Oiticica: Subterranean Tropicália Projects: PN15 1971/2022
When: May 14–August 14
Where: Socrates Sculpture Park (32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Queens)
Not long after his arrival in New York City, Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica designed, but did not realize, an immersive outdoor installation for Central Park, the Subterranean Tropicália Projects (1971). A version of the circular structure “PN15” — a maquette of which was recently on view in the first leg of This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975 at the Americas Society — will finally be built outside at scale at Socrates Sculpture Park, giving viewers the opportunity to experience Oiticica’s radical vision of a plant- and projection-filled space devoted to shared creativity and leisure. […]
The late Brazilian artist's large-scale outdoor installation, co-presented by Americas Society, is on view in the Queens park from May 14 to August 14.
