ernesto neto works with abstract installations
which often take up the entire exhibition space.
his materials are gossamer-thin, light,
stretchable fabrics in nylon or cotton. like fine
membranes fixed to the ceiling by long,
stretched threads his works hang down into
the room and create shapes that are almost
organic. sometimes they are filled with scented
spices and hang in tear-shaped forms like
gigantic mushrooms or huge stockings,
sometimes he creates peculiar soft sculptures
which the visitor is allowed to feel through
small openings in the surface. he also creates
spatial labyrinths which the visitor can enter
and thereby experience the work and interact
with it.

neto’s art is an experience which creates
associations with the body and with something
organic. he describes his works as an
exploration and a representation of the body’s
landscape from within. it is important to neto
that the viewer should actively interact with
and physically experience his work by feeling,
smelling, and touching it.

for malmö konsthall neto will create a
completely new work which he is calling
'the malmö experience'. the exhibition in
malmö will provide an overview and synopsis
of neto’s previous works and contain a number
of important works which will be presented in
a new way. in a huge 'organic labyrinth' of
fabrics and shapes, which takes up the entire
exhibition space, the visitor can experience
the work from both inside and outside.
the exhibition is based on the colours of the
rainbow and the body labyrinth/organism
consists of a number of smaller spaces which
together constitute the whole.

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