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Ernesto Neto

Ernesto Neto/エルネスト・ネト

Ernesto Neto, Slugbug, 2024
Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama
Photo by Kenryou Gu / Supported by JR West

About the viewing of “Slugbug”

Time to experience the artwork
Visitors can go in the artwork on Saturdays,Sundays, and holidays from 9:00 to 11:00 and from 13:00 to 17:00.
During other times than the above, please appreciate the artwork from outside of the chain.

Notes
Please take off your shoes before entering.
Children under 10 must be accompanied by and held hands with a parent or guardian when entering.
Do not pull hard on or climb bamboos or nets.
During busy times, we may limit the experience time and the number of people allowed.

Ernesto Neto was born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives and works. His work deals with relationships, whether between materials, forces, or beings. Gravity and balance appear as mediating elements in this relationship, challenging and expanding the vocabulary of sculpture. Considering the legacy of avant-gardes such as Neoconcretism, Minimalism, and Arte Povera, he understands the body as a fundamental political issue in his poetics, so that his sculptures evoke living organisms, as well as activating multiple senses in the viewer's body. In recent years, Neto has turned to natural materials, such as cotton, wood, and leaves, and invites us to enter meditative states and reconnect the cultural body with the spirituality of being alive, where we are in constant transformation, body and us.
Noteworthy recent solo shows include: MAAT (Lisbon, Portugal, 2024); Oficina Brennand (Recife, Brazil, 2023); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, (São Paulo, Brazil, 2019) and MALBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019); GaiaMotherTree, Zurich Main Station, Fondation Beyeler, (Zurique, Suíça, 2018);
His work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions and biennials: Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai (2023), Biennale de Veneza (2017/2001), Lyon (2017), Sharjah (2013), de Istambul (2011), and São Paulo (2010/1998).
Neto’s work is extremely well represented in international museum collections: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Inhotim (Brumadinho), Guggenheim (New York), MCA (Chicago), MOCA (Los Angeles), MoMA (New York), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), SFMOMA (San Francisco), Tate (London), TBA21 (Vienna), among many others.

Ernesto Neto/エルネスト・ネト

Photo: Pepe Schettino

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