Ernesto Neto

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Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto (* 1964 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) is a Brazilian visual artist who became internationally known for his expansive fabric sculptures.

Life

Neto's father was a civil engineer, his mother a landscape architect. After starting to study engineering and astronomy, Ernesto Neto began studying in a sculpture class at the renowned Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage . Neto lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

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Ernesto Neto: Célula Nave , 2004
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam

A large part of Ernesto Neto's works consists of expansive biomorphic structures that come from his work context and are implemented for a specific exhibition location. They are often designed as rooms made of textiles into which visitors can enter. Neto used for elastic fabrics like tulle from nylon or Lycra . Usually the textile bodies, rooms and caves are spanned downwards by ballast from a ceiling level. Spices, which give off their scent, or sand and rice, but also glass beads, plastics and forms made of plaster, serve as ballast .

The partly transparent textile rooms transform and overwhelm the surrounding conventional architecture. The resulting sensual world gives the feeling of being inside the body, the skin of which conveys warmth and security. It appeals not only to sight, but also to hearing, the sense of touch and smell. The architecture of the exhibition rooms is transformed in such a way that the interaction between users is promoted and changed. Neto aims at an art that unites people and helps them interact with others. It should not show borders as obstacles, but as a place of feelings, exchange and continuity. The playful-looking and playfully usable rooms are precisely calculated, including the strength of the fabric, the weights and counterweights and the tensile forces.

Another group of works are the Humanóides , sculptures made of Lycra, filled with spices and styrofoam pellets that can be attracted by visitors to the exhibition. They envelop and supplement the human body with masses so that movement is experienced anew.

In addition, there are less textile-based works. Part of the exhibition The Edges of the World at the Hayward Gallery in 2010 was a usable bath sculpture as an outdoor sculpture.

The organically soft forms of Neto's works encourage you to discover them as autonomous, poetic and humorous organisms. Nevertheless, he refers to classic questions of sculpture: space, body, gravity, mass and light.

If there are large numbers of visitors, the plants must be looked after and repaired.

Anthropodino

Anthropodino could be a psychedelic fantasy of the biomorphic works of Miró and Gaudí . Neto is also referring to Brazilian predecessors such as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica . The sculpture arises from two connected levels:

A skeleton made of shaped plywood parts cut like bones rises from the floor, like a three-dimensional puzzle without screws or glue. Covered like a tent with transparent pale yellow fabric, it forms a central space to which the audience can reach through blue-pink fabric tunnels that are also drawn over wooden ribs. After handing over the shoes, they sink into a lilac cushion landscape to relax or let themselves fall into a basin filled with balls.

A canopy made of white fabric hovers over the architecture, which is attached to the floor, from which fabric tubes connect to the lower skin of the structure. Other tubes of fabric hang in the room like long stockings with filled ends. The filling of ground spices such as turmeric , cloves, ginger, black pepper and cumin spreads an aroma that is reminiscent of the kitchen of the " great mother " in a childlike, erotic dimension , while the transparent fabric evokes erotic fantasies about nylon stockings.

Exhibitions

Ernesto Neto has exhibited in Brazil since 1988 and became known abroad with solo exhibitions from 1995. Together with Vik Muniz , he represented Brazil in the national pavilion at the 2001 Venice Biennale and in the international group exhibition Arsenale .

Honors

After the Leviathan Thot exhibition at the Panthéon Paris in 2006, Neto was made a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

literature

  • Germano Celant, Vik Muniz, Ernesto Neto . In occasione della serie di mostre "Brasil in Venezia / Brasil in Venice", tenutesi nel Padiglione Brasile alla Biennale di Venezia, nel Palazzo Fortuny, nella Peggy Guggenheim Collection e nella Chiesa di San Giacomo dall'Orio a Venezia dal 6 giugno al 4 novembre 2001; in occasione della 49esima Biennale di Venezia . Saõ Paulo, 2001. (Italian)
  • Ralf Christofori, André Bideau, Peter Pakesch , Christina Végh , spatial bodies, nets and other structures . Exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Basel, August 26 - November 12, 2000. ISBN 3-7965-1412-X
  • Hans-Michael Herzog, Valeska Soares, Daros-Latinamerica AG: Seduções: Installations . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1884-4 Catalog for the exhibition with works by Cildo Meireles , Ernesto Neto and Valeska Soares in the Daros-Latinamerica Collection in Zurich, June 9 to October 15, 2006. ( English, Spanish, Portuguese)
  • Leviathan Thoth. Ernesto Neto . Festival d'Automne 2006. Exhibition catalog with texts by Jean-Marc Prevost and Ernesto Neto. Editions du Regard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-84105-201-X
  • Ernesto Neto: Anthropodino , texts by Adriano Pedrosa, Tom Eccles and Ernesto Neto. 2010, ISBN 978-0-9800242-3-4 (English)
  • Ernesto Neto; Cecilia Pereira, Ernesto Neto: o corpo, nu tempo . Exhibition catalog with texts by Miguel Fernández-Cid and an interview by Cecilia Pereira with Ernesto Neto. Centro Galego de arte contemporánea. Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela 2002, ISBN 84-453-3434-4 (Spanish, Portuguese, English)
  • Ernesto Neto: The edges of the world , exhibition catalog with texts by Cliff Lauson, Moacir dos Anjos, Philip Ursprung and an interview with the artist by Ralph Rugoff. Hayward Gallery, London and New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-85332-284-6

Web links

Commons : Ernesto Neto  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Ernesto Neto. Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, September 13, 2011, accessed on September 16, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World. Hayward Gallery, Southbank Center, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Randy Kennedy: Hey, Drill This! Park Avenue Armory Goes Sci-Fi. The New York Times, May 2, 2009, accessed September 16, 2012 .
  4. ^ Gunnar B. Kvaran: Ernesto Neto - Intimacy. Astrup Fearnley Museum od Modern Art, 2010, accessed September 20, 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Ernesto Neto: January 17–10. March 2002. Kunsthalle Basel, accessed on August 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Florencia Malbrán: Is it Day or is it Night? Astrup Fearnley Museum od Modern Art, 2010, accessed September 20, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Ernesto Neto. (No longer available online.) Daros Latinamerica Collection, formerly the original ; Retrieved September 18, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.daros-latinamerica.net  
  8. ↑ ernesto neto. In: designboom.com. designboom, accessed on August 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Ken Johnson: Into the Embrace of a Great Spicy, Gauzy Mother. The New York Times, May 14, 2009, accessed on September 20, 2012 : “The culinary aroma alone tells us we are in the realm of the Great Mother. There is the suggestion of a kind of an Oedipal - or pre-Oedipal - erotic dimension too, as the sheer fabric calls to mind nylon stockings. "
  10. ↑ Olga M. Viso on Directions - Ernesto Neto (PDF file; 593 kB)
  11. ↑ Tropicália 2005/06 ( memento of October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), MCA Chicago, accessed on August 8, 2019 (English).
  12. ↑ Ernesto Neto: molhada elements. Multitudes 2008/2 (n ° 33), accessed July 22, 2015 .
  13. ↑ http://www.festival-automne.com/leviathan-thot-spectacle79.html
  14. ↑ a b Steve Sampson: Art at home with heroes. franglaise, August 4, 2010, accessed September 18, 2012 (French).
  15. ↑ Ernesto Neto. (No longer available online.) Daros Latinamerica Collection, formerly the original ; Retrieved September 18, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.daros-latinamerica.net  
  16. ↑ Philip origin: Ernesto Neto. (PDF) Parkett Kunstzeitschrift, 2007, accessed on September 18, 2012 .
  17. ^ Ernesto Neto, anthropodino. Park Avenue Armory, 2009, accessed September 18, 2012 .
  18. ↑ Navedenga. MoMA, accessed September 23, 2012 .
  19. ^ Ernesto Neto in Buenos Aires. Universes in Universe, accessed September 23, 2012 .
  20. ↑ Information text about Ernesto Neto's exhibition in the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck on the museum's website. Archived from the original on February 6, 2015 ; accessed on August 9, 2019 .
  21. ^ Fondation Beyeler - Ernesto Neto. Retrieved June 29, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Neto, Ernesto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albuquerque Neto, Ernesto Saboia de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro