It was an honor helping with this exhibit. Please join us tonight! Reposted from @tanyabonakdargallery - Join us tonight to celebrate Ernesto Neto’s solo exhibition ‘Children of the Earth’ opening at our LA gallery from 6-8pm! One of the most influential artists of his generation, Neto has become known for his immersive environments of color, fragrance and sound, and for his use of materials such as hand-dyed fabric, spices and shells. Since the 1990s Ernesto Neto has created a distinct body of work— an ongoing formal inquiry into space, volume, balance and gravity that is equally informed by sensuality, energy and spirituality. Inspired by a wide range of sources—from Brazilian avant-garde artists such as Hélio Oiticia and Lygia Clark, through the Modernist abstraction of Calder and Brancusi, to the natural world, shamanism and craft culture—Neto’s art-making practice has pushed the boundaries of sculpture and radically redefined the relationship between artwork and viewer. In Children of the Earth, Neto creates an alluring environment of color, materials, fragrances and sound, transforming the gallery into a living organism, where visitors are encouraged to wander, touch, feel, interact and connect. The exhibition as a whole connects mind, body and nature through a sensory experience that is unmediated. It is an invitation to connect to ourselves and to our planet at a time when connectivity is most needed. For Neto, sculpture is an extension of the body, and the body is ultimately an extension of earth. #ErnestoNeto #TanyaBonakdarGallery #ChildrenoftheEarth #installationart #fineart https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Z7LUAAjRR/?igshid=1m9m71rpggmd
