Helio Oiticica was a Brazilian artist born in 1937. He is arguably one of the most innovative creators of the second half of the 20th century. Oiticica, whose untimely death in 1980, tragically cut short his remarkable artistic production, will finally be having a major retrospective at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh later this year that will then travel to Whitney Museum of American Art and The Art Institute of Chicago.

The artist produced a body of work that evinces a myriad of conceptual approaches, styles and techniques of limitless originality and experimentation. The artists work, Metaesquema (1958), belongs to an early and pivotal series of gouaches that the artist created between 1957 and 1958. This ph...