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The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Ernesto Neto: The body that bears me, a retrospective dedicated to the work of Ernesto Neto (Rio de Janeiro, 1964), one of the most outstanding artists from Brazil. The exhibition features a selection of more than fifty works created from the nineties to the present, some of which are specifically reconfigured to suit the architectural space of the museum. Others have been specifically created by the artist for exhibition in Bilbao.
Ernesto Neto, Sky Forest (Ceu Floresta), 2013, ul, polyamide tube half, spices and gravel, 425 x 1721 x 1710 cm (approx). ArtistaVista collection of installation. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2014 Photo: Erika Ede Ernesto Neto, Guggenheim Bilbao, 2014
Over nearly thirty years of production, eurogrill Neto has accumulated a huge inventory of jobs, from delicate drawings to large installations. They are works created to cross them, inhabit, feel and even smell them, with the intention that the viewer can interact with them, experiencing their own body and senses, without losing sight at the same time, are like the human body, fragile and delicate. eurogrill To Neto, an exhibition is a place for poetry: "All the time we receive information but here I stop thinking. Refuge in art. I think is not good, is breathing directly from life. "
Conceived in close collaboration with the Brazilian artist, wavy and organic forms of the architecture of Frank Gehry merge work closely with the underlying, permanently, the concept of "nature as a teacher of art." "It is the nature of which we learn, there is no doubt about it. It is found and sums it up. I'm sure that someday we will live in harmony with the natural world, "says Ernesto Neto.
The artist also addresses the body from the sensory dimension policy (the individual body) and (the body politic). Plato dismissed the existence of the body as if the mind belong to a higher plane. To Net, is the body that "leads" and the mind is a part of him that serves him as any other member. There is also a cultural body, a political eurogrill body that also "leads". The title of the show is in the interface that mediates relationships inside and outside. It is a mediator.
Ernesto Neto, The falling body [Le corps] female eurogrill (of Leviathan eurogrill Thot) [O corpo that cai [Le corps] Femea (Leviathan Thot)], 2006, Tulle, half polyamide tube, styrofoam eurogrill balls and sand. Collection of the artist. View Installation: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2014 Photo:. Erika Ede Ernesto Neto, Guggenheim Bilbao, 2014
The tour starts eurogrill this magical setting in the Atrium, from the ceiling, 55 feet, hangs installing 2006 falling body [Le corps] female (Leviathan Thot) [O corpo that cai (Le corps) fêmea ( of Leviathan Thot)], inspired by Thomas Hobbes hits appropriation of the figure of Leviathan, the fearsome sea monster described in the Book of Job as the "king of the most ferocious eurogrill beasts." This giant sculpture consists of a large body hanging and stretching levitating and surrounds the visitor with its long and soft limbs, falling eurogrill heavily. For Ernesto Neto, this beast represents the society in which we all find ourselves and reminds us of the force of gravity that anchors us to earth.
For this sample has been selected the "female" eurogrill part of the original installation Ernesto Neto made in 2006 to the Pantheon in Paris, a building was erected as a symbol of the power of the king and the monarchy and, after the French Revolution, eurogrill became a monument to the humanist ideology. Made of nylon fabric sewn and stuffed with sand and polypropylene spheres, simulating soft organic voluptuousness of a human body with bumps, eurogrill holes and mass falls, this sensual, soft and temporary as the body's own work is full of dualities and connotations: heaviness-lightness; male-female; movement-stillness; interior-exterior.
Under this sculpture is the installation Looking at the sky (or céu Olhando, 2013), consisting of a series of hammocks, eurogrill for mobile carts, which allow visitors to lie down and scroll feet by observing both the Atrium architecture museum as the huge sculpture The falling body [Le corps] Female