Dedicated to transforming color into space, late Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica receives his first comprehensive retrospective with The Body of Color at Houston's Museum of Fine Arts. In his White Series, Oiticica manipulated the tone and brush strokes of white pigment on canvas and cardboard to demonstrate his theory that painting can manifest itself as a unique moment in the perception of time. Grand Núcleo (Grand Nucleus), a suspended large-scale wood construction, invites viewers to move through its panels to experience color as a physical environment. Oiticica's color theories climax with his Parangolés, bright cloth capes that give the sense of color in motion.

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