Ernesto Neto explores the systems and conditions of balance. Fully aware of the material dimension of the elements he uses, he never reduces his work to a merely formal exercise. From the very beginning, Neto’s link with a series of questions raised by other Brazilian artists makes itself clear. Hélio Oiticia and Lygia Clark are perhaps the artists whose work most immediately comes to mind, due, of course, to the fact that the artist himself alludes to them almost literally in many of his recent pieces. Also evident in Nero’s oeuvre is a certain continuity between his work and the most recent