Institute of Contempotary Arts
The first UK exhibition for Ernesto
Neto, a young Brazilian artist who
makes sensuous worlds to enter
and experience. He stretches
translucent white lycra into
voluptuous sheer environments,
and puncuates them with elegantly poised
pendulous shapes and oversized ovaloid forms
filled with pungent spices, sand and pigments.
Playful and erotic, these structures entice the
spectator into becoming an active participant, able
to touch, smell and walk through the work.
Neto's installations (inspired by the legacy of
historic Brazilian artists Lygia Clarke and Helio
Oiticia) perform an unexpected twist on the
abstract tradition, re-orientating formalist
experimentation towards the body. Uncanny and
beautiful Neto's environments are places for
discovery and dreaming, wonder and
contemplation.
Venue(s): Lower Gallery, Concourse Gallery
Institute of Contempotary Arts
London,
UK United Kingdom