It’s the image on top of Gladstone’s email announcement and MoMA’s exhibition information page, so I assume Hélio Oiticica’s Red Monochrome is included in Less is Morbid, Arthur Jafa’s Artist’s Choice exhibition organized with Thomas Lax, which opens next week.
A spin on the Miesian maxim which drove much of The Modern’s Modernism, Jafa’s title calls out “the way art institutions valued supposedly rational cultural disciplines over forms of life—Black, queer, and feminine, for example—imagined as excessive and chaotic. In response, Jafa suggests, ‘The answer to disorder in the universe is not genocide. The answer is in how we coexist.'”