Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan

Circa 1960, artists working at the margins of the international art world breached the frame of canvas painting and ruptured the institutional frame of art. Members of the Brazilian Neoconcrete group, such as Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, and their counterparts in Japan, such as Akasegawa Genpei and the Kansai—based Gutai Art Association, challenged the boundaries between art and non—art, between fiction and reality, between visual artwork and its discursive frame. In place of the indefin...