Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
New York, Tanya Banakdar Gallery, Ernesto Neto, 29 March – 26 April, 1997; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Material/Immaterial, 1997; Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Best of the Season- Selected Work from 1996-1997 Gallery Exhibitions, 14 September, 1997 – 4 January, 1998; Gainesville, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 22 March, 1998 – 3 Januray, 1999; Knoxville, Knoxville Museum of Art, Spring 1999; Athens, Georgia, Museum of Art, Summer 1999; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum of Art, 29 October, 1999 – 2 January, 2000; Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art, January – April, 2000, Inner Eye; Peekskill, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Reverence, 20 May, 2006 – 30 July, 2007
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, ed., Ernesto Neto, Sao Paulo, 1997, pp. 33, 34 and 50 (illustrated)
Brazilian • 1964
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto creates monumental installations and objects of diverse biomorphic shapes and forms that often occupy entire rooms. The works are primarily concerned with corporeality and visual seduction. Viewers are encouraged to participate with the works, and Neto engages the viewer's tactile and olfactory senses through different textures and scents, employing a myriad of synthetic non-traditional materials including nylon and polyamide fabrics, newspaper, nets and aromatic and boldly colored spices. Neto works around the space of the body, where the physical immersion into his works is like a continuation of his own body and mind.
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