Ernesto Neto is a Brazilian Conceptual artist whose installations offer a chance for the viewer to touch, see, smell, and feel his artworks for a truly sensory experience.
Neto was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from a generation of Brazilian artists that witnessed the more liberal approach to art that arose during the 1950s and 1960s.
Neto has produced an influential body of work that explores constructions of social space and the natural world by inviting physical interaction and sensory experience.
Most of his sculptural environments are site-specific crocheted nets and cocoons, sewed with nylon, and often carrying surprising substances.
Aromatic spices, candies, sand and colorful Styrofoam balls are stuffed into these nets creating pendulous sculptures that fall like raindrops from the ceiling.
Other times Neto creates human-scale spaces that appear almost surreal.
He works with transparent materials and unusual textures, attending to both the inside and outside of the sculptures.
The resulting shelters or vessels, unlike conventional architecture, are meant to be experienced as nature: his materials beg to be touched.
More of Ernesto Neto‘s amazing work can be found at http://www.artnet.com/artists/ernesto-neto/.
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You are so right. I applaud and hug your opinion. My middle grandson is showing artistic leanings, and I encourage everything he makes. I believe art is a release and therapy for growing minds. And even at 69 I am still growing. Thank you, my friend.
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I would too! They somehow seem relaxing yet bright and inspirational
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I know we can all make art, problem is we are afraid of making something that other people would find horrible, so we don’t even try. Kids think differently and they often make beautiful things. I think we need to encourage people more to try and have fun doing it, that is all that matters, having fun creating something.
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Incredible! I would enjoy spending time in any of the spaces he has created.
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Wonderful works of art.
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That’s what I thought when I came across his work. This is interesting — for what is art, really? I’ve made some killer forts for my kids in the olden days — was I an artist then? Even creating a fancy food dish can be art. I just love it. That’s why I say we are ALL artists — we need to embrace it.
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These are impressive !! And how much fun to be able to walk “in” an art object !!!
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Fiber artist in the extreme. Thanks for sharing.
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