Ernesto Neto, Nude Plasmic, 1999 (installation view)

 

   Lauren | November 18, 1999

   Grade 12 | North Allegheny Senior High School | Wexford, PA


The piece of artwork that I found to be most interesting and original was Ernesto Neto's  Nude Plasmic. I found it to be almost an escape from reality in a way because of it's ability to take you into a completely different, unreal experience in which you feel like you are in a different lifetime or some type of dream. I really found his use of nylon, an everyday item, fascinating because it is so simple yet it brings you to a whole new frame of mind. The simple "raindrop" type figures filled with styrofoam balls were a really neat effect to add to the piece. The artist's idea to actually have people experience his work personally by walking through and touching it rather than just looking at it made it much more memorable.