° 1964
Lives in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
Ernesto Neto, another founding member of A Gentil Carioca, has long been a household name in the global contemporary art scene, and his instantly recognizable immersive installations have been on view in major art museums and biennials the world over. In many of these large-scale environments Neto, a sculptor through and through, seeks to address the question of coming together – the encounter between self and other, art and life, studio and street, in which all borders must by their very definition remain porous and flexible, transparent and sensually charged.
>Ernesto Neto at M HKA, October 2011
>Ernesto Neto's "Célula Nave" being built at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam [video]
>Interview with Ernesto Neto during a retrospective in Oslo, Norway [video]
>Ernesto Neto's ode to the coconut water [video] [in Portuguese]
>Ernesto Neto, Em cima da hora, in the top of the hour (Saturday Sunday Monday), 2011.Installation.
> Exhibition: A RUA/DE STRAAT – Europalia.Brasil. 07 October 2011 - 22 January 2012.