Pinturas cegas
Subtitle: Tomie Ohtake
By: Paulo Herkenhoff [texto]
Contributors: Herkenhoff, Paulo, editor, writer of added text; Boff, Adriana, editor; Ohtake, Tomie; Ohtake, Tomie; Fundação Iberê Camargo
Publisher: Fundação Iberê Camargo
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
Language: por
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9788589680301
Subjects: Exhibitions; Themes, motives; Modern Art
Other titles: Tomie Ohtake
Work titles: Works
Description: Between 1959 and 1962, artist Tomie Ohtake (b. Kyoto, 1913, naturalized Brazilian) took her art to extremes, through a sense of being hostage to her own perception she started creating with her eyes blindfolded. Instructed by critic Mrio Pedrosa (1900 - 1981), she learned the theory of Phenomenology of Perception of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 - 1961), according to which perception is an event based on the experience of the senses. The outcome was the series of paintings known as the "Pinturas Cegas". The challenging task was to gather the 33 abstract works from collections and private collections throughout Brazil and abroad results in the opportunity to contemplate, for the first time, a significant number in this series unknown to the general public. Curator Paul Herkenhoff highlights the fact that the paintings have remained unknown by the general public and ignored by much of the historiography until 2011, when an exhibition dedicated to only these works revealed the and the aesthetic strength of her experiment.
Notes: Title from page 45.

"This catalogue was produced on the occasion of the exhibition "Tomie Ohtake - Pinturas cegas", Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alege, Brazil. June 15 to August 12, 2013"--Facing Title, page 44.

"Coordenação editorial, Paulo Herkenhoff, Adriana Boff ; texto, Paulo Herkenhoff ; tradução, Nick Rands"--Page 127.

Includes bibliographical references.

Portuguese and English.
Table of contents: title: Introdução = Introduction / Fundação Iberê Camargo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake; title: Tomie Ohtake : pinturas cegas ou o osso do olho (a não ver na história da arte brasileira) = Tomie Ohtake : blind paintings or the bone of the eye (not seeing in Brazilian art history) / Paulo Herkenhoff; title: Caderno de referências.