ERNESTO NETO O tempo lento do corpo que é pele

ERNESTO NETO
O tempo lento do corpo que é pele, 2004
Upper Belvedere
From 26 June 2015
Ernesto Neto
O tempo lento de corpo que é pele, 2004
Foam, Polyamide rug, wood, and spices
150 x 680 x 950 cm
Photo: Courtesy Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
ERNESTO NETO
O tempo lento do corpo que é pele, 2004
Upper Belvedere
From 26 June 2015
O tempo lento do corpo que é pele (The Slow Pace of the Body That Is Skin) is an
amorphous sculpture woven in Brazil from red and sandy strips of rubbery fabric
in a traditional weaving technique called “nózinho” (little knot). It spreads over
the floor like a carpet and resembles an island with hillocks swelling out of its
surface. The title makes reference to the skin, the cell, the architectural membrane
and the soft silhouette of an animal and underscores Ernesto Neto’s fundamental
interest in the relationship between body and space, the inside and the outside.
This fantastic landscape is imbued with the aroma of spices—turmeric, cloves,
pepper, and cumin—regular olfactory ingredients of his works and directs our
attention from the visual to the sensual and haptic, from sculpture to
environment.
“This idea of the skin is very important in all my works: the skin as the place of
existence, and the skin as the place where our internal vibrations deal with external
vibrations. I see the body very much as a landscape—like a sea, a field—and the
sculpture is a landscape. If we look inside our body, there is this new landscape, which
has a very important presence in the inspiration for my work, the micro world landscape,
the bio landscape. O tempo lento do corpo que é pele shows it very clearly; you can
see it as a mountain and/or an animal. This transition is fundamental... The time-space
in this piece is related more to the many little knots, the cells, that generate the surface.
They were made by the women’s cooperative Coparoca. There is something interesting
to me about the time they take to make knot by knot with their own hands, so this crafttime is revealing the invisible content.” (Ernesto Neto)
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