Something's Odd
The organic shapes and materials that Ernesto Neto (Brazil, 1964) uses in his work appeal to all the senses. You can walk through them, you are not allowed to touch them, and often, they appeal to your sense of smell. After visiting a spice shop, Neto became fascinated by the colorful pigments and the intense fragrance within and began incorporating spices into his artworks as media. The tall columns in It Happens When the Body is Anatomy of Time (2000) are filled with cloves, turmeric and cumin. Neto’s work explore the boundaries of the physical and social space by means of interactive and tangible structures inspired by nature. His work is about ‘coming together’. He describes this as a process of encounters between yourself and others, art and life, the studio and the street. The elasticated fabric used in It Happens When the Body is Anatomy of Time reminds Neto of the human skin – entering the work will take you on a journey through the inside of the body, past blood vessels, membranes and tissue.
Ernesto Neto and Calder.
For Calder, the space surrounding his mobiles and stabiles is an integral part of the experience – negative and positive space interacting to create new sensations, as well as materiality and immateriality. In his gallery-sized installations, Neto also creates negative space:visitors can walk within them, immersed in scent. The works by both artisits appeal to the senses; Calder’s mainly to our seeing na d hearing, and Neto’s to our touch and smell.
Source: The Senses & Negative Space – text describing Ernesto Neto’s work in the superb exposition Calder Now which ran at Kunsthal Rotterdam in spring 2022.
Two other pics:
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Something's Odd
The organic shapes and materials that Ernesto Neto (Brazil, 1964) uses in his work appeal to all the senses. You can walk through them, you are not allowed to touch them, and often, they appeal to your sense of smell. After visiting a spice shop, Neto became fascinated by the colorful pigments and the intense fragrance within and began incorporating spices into his artworks as media. The tall columns in It Happens When the Body is Anatomy of Time (2000) are filled with cloves, turmeric and cumin. Neto’s work explore the boundaries of the physical and social space by means of interactive and tangible structures inspired by nature. His work is about ‘coming together’. He describes this as a process of encounters between yourself and others, art and life, the studio and the street. The elasticated fabric used in It Happens When the Body is Anatomy of Time reminds Neto of the human skin – entering the work will take you on a journey through the inside of the body, past blood vessels, membranes and tissue.
Ernesto Neto and Calder.
For Calder, the space surrounding his mobiles and stabiles is an integral part of the experience – negative and positive space interacting to create new sensations, as well as materiality and immateriality. In his gallery-sized installations, Neto also creates negative space:visitors can walk within them, immersed in scent. The works by both artisits appeal to the senses; Calder’s mainly to our seeing na d hearing, and Neto’s to our touch and smell.
Source: The Senses & Negative Space – text describing Ernesto Neto’s work in the superb exposition Calder Now which ran at Kunsthal Rotterdam in spring 2022.
Two other pics:
www.flickr.com/photos/145400672@N02/51989498149/in/photos...