Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira recently installed "The Baitogogo Exhibition" in Paris' Palais de Tokyo museum, where he used a reclaimed plywood in order to create an intensely tangled knot of branches that appear to burst through the exhibition space. The exhibition curators have said that the tangle of branches resembles a "Gordian Knot," and Oliveira's engagement with the space allows work that "combines the vegetal and organic."
The large installation, open until September 29, was built wholly from reclaimed tapumes, a wood material collected from São Paulo, where Oliveira currently works and lives. Tapumes, sharing similar properties and uses as plywood, is traditionally used to construct the hoardings around construction areas in Brazil. Using recycled materials, and employing the exhibition space as part of his installation, it's pretty safe to say that Oliveira is both creative and resourceful, and we're all about it.
[via Dezeen]
