Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space

Five Immersive Large-Scale Installations by Latin American Artists Expand the History and Perception of Light and Space Art

The Hirshhorn presents “Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space,” an exhibition that reconsiders the role played by major Latin American artists in the development of installation art centered on activating space through light and color. On view from Feb. 23 until May 13, 2012, “Suprasensorial” features five large-scale, populist, participatory works by Lucio Fontana (Italian, b. Rosario, Argentina, 1899–1968), Julio Le Parc (French, b. Mendoza, Argentina, 1928; lives in Paris), Carlos Cruz-Diez (French, b. Caracas, Venezuela, 1923; lives in Paris), Jesús Rafael Soto (French, b. Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, 1923–2005), and Hélio Oiticica (Brazilian, b. Rio de Janeiro, 1937–1980), who collaborated with Neville D’Almeida (Brazilian, b. Belo Horizonte, 1941). Working internationally, these artists independently anticipated and paralleled developments in Light and Space art, a movement usually associated with California in the 1960s and 1970s.