Ernesto Neto
Ernesto Neto (1964, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) studied sculpture with Jaime Sampaio and João Carlos Goldberg at the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts (EAV/Parque Lage) in the 1980s, and urban intervention and sculpture with Cleber Machado and Roberto Moriconi at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ). Ernesto Neto's work falls between sculpture and installation. Since 1990 he uses elements made of lycra, cotton and polyamide fabrics, filled with small lead balls, polypropylene, spices, beads, foam, cotton and other materials in a game of relations between tension, strength, balance, and fragility.
In 1988 he held his first solo exhibition at Petit Galerie, in Rio de Janeiro, and since then has exhibited individually in several international museums: Pinacoteca de S. Paulo (2019); Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany (2018); Fondation Beyeler in the Zurich Main station, Zurich, Switzerland (2018); MCA, Chicago, USA (2017); Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (2014); Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (2010); Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (2010); Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (2006); Venice Biennial, Italy (2001); MoMA, New York, USA (2000).
He was awarded the Aspen Art Museum Prize in 2014, USA, for his contribution to the field of contemporary art. In 2003 he founded the contemporary art gallery - A Gentil Carioca - with two other artists: Márcio Botner and Laura Lima, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
His work is widely represented in international public collections: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA; Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA; Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporånea, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Tate Gallery, London, UK; and Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria, among many others.
PS, dezembro 2020
