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Henrique Oliveira at the Rice Gallery

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Website: http://www.henriqueoliveira.com

This is an absolutely breathtaking look at an old gallery of the talented Henrique Oliveira. Oliveira uses tapumes, which in Portuguese can mean “fencing,” “boarding,” or “enclosure,” as a title for many of his large-scale installations. The term makes reference to the temporary wooden construction fences seen throughout the city of São Paulo where Oliveira lives. It also refers to the weathered wood Oliveira uses as the primary material in his installations. More after the jump:

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