Ernesto Neto

Artville Contemporary Artist Of The Day 
Ernesto Neto 
Title: While nothing happens, 
Year: 2008
View of the installation at MACRO, Roma 

About Artist
To describe at best his works, we should read once again Italo Calvino's words in American Lessons and use expressions like lightness, speed, accuracy, visibility, stability and instability.
Sensual and poetic, the result of extremely careful studies about static and resistance: his installations give the feeling of something primal and atavistic to those who get impressed by their strength.
Sometimes his sculptures were compared to huge breasts, bundles of blood vessels and nerve endings, but also futuristic spaceships. These are imaginative associations but they explain the lightness and weight that characterize the interactive and multisensory Neto's landscapes, where the tulle's transparency contrasts with the serious gravity of living materials: pepper, ginger, cumin, turmeric, cloves...
Heady spices that involve the visitors with their intense fragrance. The artist explained many times that he often gets inspired by dance for the creation of his biomorphic shapes, he looks how bodies move in space, being able to change shape with every movement they do. Especially for this exhibition the artist created a fluid environment where the sculptures blend with the architecture of interiors and exteriors.
courtesy: vogue

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