| Dates: | born 1964
| | Biography: | 1964 Born in Rio de Janeiro.
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 Contemporay Art Museum, Houston
1998 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo
Carrilo Gil, Mexico City
1992 Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao
Paulo, Sao Paulo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1999 Amnesia, The Contemporary Arts
Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Biblioteca Luis Arango,
Bogota
Carnegie International Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh
A Vuelta com los Sentidos, Casa de
America,
Madrid Collectors Collect Contemporary:
1990-99,
The Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston
1998 XXIV Bienal Internacional de Sao
Paulo, Sao Paulo
Everyday: 11th Biennale of Sydney,
Sydney Camargo BIS,
Galena Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo
Museu Brasileiro da
Escultura and Paco das Artes, Sao
Paulo
1997 Material Immaterial, The Art
Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Loose Threads, Serpentine Gallery,
London
1996 Transformal, Wiener Secession,
Vienna Pequenas Maos,
Pago Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, RJ;
Centro Cultural Alumni,
Sao Paulo Transparencias, Museu de
Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
FURTHER READING
Basualdo, C. "Studio Visit Ernesto Neto,"
Trans (Nov. 1995): 137-42
Basualdo, C. "Ernesto Neto: Galeria
Camargo
Vilaca," ArtForum (Jan. 1995): 93
Genocchio, B. World Art (1997): 56-8
Pedrosa, A. "Ernesto Neto: Tanya
Bonakdar
Gallery," Art/Text (Nov. 1997): 87-8
Ruben, G. "Ernesto Neto: Voluptuous,
Sexy
and Floating Membranes," Flash Art
32.204
(Jan.-Feb. 1999): 78-9 | | | Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 1999 |
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| | Description: | Ernesto Neto has created a world
between body and architecture. His
sculptures articulate the spaces of
buildings while simulating bodily
membranes. His basic forms are
constructed from poliamid: a stretch
material like stockingette that he
distends into various configurations.
These empty structures are articulated
by being pulled across architectural
spaces or gorged with substances like
powdered turmeric or lead shot. The
process is always intrinsic to the form.
For example, one sculpture - called Paff -
is constructed by filling the 'toe' of a
long tube of material with 60 kg of
turmeric. The empty end is attached to
the ceiling while the bulky 'toe' is hurled
onto the floor, stretching the tube taught
while creating a globule of rich yellow
surrounded by a powdery halo on the
floor.
In other installations Neto has created
entire rooms out of poliamid material
suspended from existing ceiling
structures. The corners are weighted and
looped over beams or rings to create a
semi-transparent cube with concave
walls. These walls are disturbingly skin-
like, an association that the artist
sometimes highlights by embroidering
small orifices into the membrane. Other
poliamid objects are arranged in
clusters, taking the form of soft standing
tubes like fungi or crowds of amorphous
figures.
In every case the works are highly
sensual, an experience heightened by
the aroma of turmeric or cloves, which
strikes visitors long before they see the
installation.
| | Description Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 1999 | | Gender: | male | | Type: | person |
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