Lygia Clark - Helio Oiticica: Letters 1964-1974

From 1964 to 1974, two leading artists of the Brazilian 'Neo-Concrete Movement,' Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, had an extraordinary correspondence which has now been translated into English. The letters are, first and foremost, a testimony to their friendship and complicities, bonds that had grown since the mid-1950s, when they first met amid an atmosphere of huge creative ferment in Brazil. Their encounter turned out to be transcendental in the life and career of both, in a country that was, moreover, preparing for the surge of the so-called second Modernidade, the artistic development which, according to Ivo Mesquita, began in the 1950s and lasted until the 1980s.