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Ernesto Neto, Nude Plasmic, 1999 (installation view)
| Ask the Artists: Ernesto Neto |
| Question 1: Just a weird question, does your art effect you life? Where you live, is it made of stockings. Why do you use herbs in some of your pieces? Why are a couple of your pieces made so that people can walk into them, if you're risking that they might break? Why is it that in "Nude Plasmic", instead of just making one large room, you made pathways, things hanging down, and bean bags on the ground? Why is it that on "Nude Plasmic", you but lace on the edges of the doors, but probably won't sew it up because it's where you walk in? In "Nude Plasmic", Some of the stockings are different shades of white, is this on purpose? In "Nude Plasmic", There are holes with stocking on them, why? In "Nude Plasmic", The stockings on the holes are pink along with what you used to sew the sand legs on. Did you choose pink purposefully to contrast something, or why? |
| Yes, the art affects my life. No, where I live is made of bricks, the herbs is to stimulate the senses, let it awake. There is pleasure in the risk. I didn't want to make just a large room, I wanted to make a nude plasmic. Some times I close a bit of the door this time I decide not to close, it doesn't mean that it not gonna happen in the future. The different shades of white was decided on purpose. The holes are to excite the relation between inside and outside. It's pink to contrast like fruits on the tree. |
| Question 2: When you were young (middle school), What kind of art did you like, make, and want to learn, make, or get more involved in. I go to Rogers High School for the Creative and Performing Arts where I am studying to be a docent on Ernesto Neto. |
| I always enjoy almost everything in art, especially sculptures, If you think in a traditional way people from the modernism pos cubism, like suprematism - contrutivism - and concrete art was very important, in brasil the neo-concret movement was very important, also the minimal- If you think about names, you can think Calder, Duchamp, Brancusi, Arp, Mondrian, Max Ernest, Serra, Jose Rezende, Tunga, Waltercio Caldas, Lygia Clark, Helio Oiticica, Sergio Camargo, Donald Jud... Also it was very important to me the greek and egyptian art, as astekas and Maias from mexico. and pr'e historic art. |
| Question 3: Is there a particular reason why you made two fairly large holes in the center of the piece "Nude Plasmic"? |
| To make the circulatory system in between the two rooms. |
| Question 4: What inspired you to use this medium and make the work how you did? |
| Something in between the elasticity of space time and the topology of the desire, over the necessity of a place. |
| Ernesto Neto's CI:99/00 page |