
ERNESTO NETO
Pinacoteca do Estado / Estação Pinacoteca
Praça da Luz, 2
March 30–July 15, 2019
Curated by Jochen Volz and Valeria Piccoli
Since the late 1980s, Ernesto Neto has displayed an uncanny, sensual understanding of sculpture and its relation to the spectator, imploding all formal innovations of Brazilian modernity and NeoConcretism. His retrospective at São Paulo’s Pinacotecaitself a feat of twentiethcentury Brazilian art, having been renovated in the 1990s by architect Paulo Mendes da Rochawill include some sixty pieces, dating from the late 1980s to this year; the selection promises to exacerbate the friction between the loose, organic contours of his polyamide spheres and hanging bags of spices and the crystalline geometries of his hovering walkways. While many of his works hinge on the participation of the public (certain of his sculptures are meant to be penetrated and activated by the spectator), some of Neto’s latest works are rooted in concern for the environment and for indigenous populations. An exhibition catalogue with texts by the curators will elaborate on the varied stages of Neto’s threedecade career. Travels to the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, August 2019.