The Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, located in New York’s largest art gallery district in Chelsea on 521 West of 21st Street, has gladly opened their doors to receive the internationally-known and creative artist Ernesto Neto with his exhibition called The Serpent’s Energy Gave Birth to Humanity which will be on display from October 29 to December 16, 2016. As soon as you walk in you encounter hanging crocheted ropes that touch and wrap around you as you pass creating a jungle-like environment. But as you take off your shoes and enter into this oasis of a web-like fun-house or bouncy-house, your inner child emerges from the profundity of adulthood, allowing you to focus on the colors, touch the artwork and dive into the experience. Similarly, the
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Through the five senses, people physically experience the idea of the artist that cause many sensations and emotions to the viewer and evoke their own interpretation. He wants no impediments that interfere with the viewers visualization and understanding, so that the interaction is at its greatest creating a union between the artwork and the individual. Even Roger Atwood, author of the article “Serious Fun” from the online magazine ArtNews, has included a quote from Cliff Lauson, a curator at the Hayward Gallery in London saying “His work is about tactility, reaching people through the senses…He’s interested in the way people move through and negotiate space, how the body interacts with the work.” Neto cares about …show more content…
(Fig.1) This interactive work has a web-like structure upheld by hooks and on the side by sack-like shapes holding stones. The structure has various hole-like entrances allowing people to step in and surround themselves by the colorful crochets while walking on a comfortable green and purple crocheted surface. Two of the entrances were thin because they were in a curved and serpent-like shape that surrounded the other entrance that is round and spacious. Inside the entrance on the back of the structure is a floor covered in green and purple fuzzy material with a long, thick tube-like structure filled with dry leaves, and accompanied by a small, long tube-like structure that wraps itself around the other structure. Both of them start on the floor and reach the top of the nest that is formed with crochet creating triangles and four-sided shapes. On the sides of the nest, a crochet pattern of triangle and rhombus figures with colors from yellow, sky blue, orange, red, pink, green, purple, and tan surround the viewers as they enter, and even a guitar and a drum were in the nest. This marvelous combination of colors left me mesmerized and gave me a feeling of tranquility. As
Through the five senses, people physically experience the idea of the artist that cause many sensations and emotions to the viewer and evoke their own interpretation. He wants no impediments that interfere with the viewers visualization and understanding, so that the interaction is at its greatest creating a union between the artwork and the individual. Even Roger Atwood, author of the article “Serious Fun” from the online magazine ArtNews, has included a quote from Cliff Lauson, a curator at the Hayward Gallery in London saying “His work is about tactility, reaching people through the senses…He’s interested in the way people move through and negotiate space, how the body interacts with the work.” Neto cares about …show more content…
(Fig.1) This interactive work has a web-like structure upheld by hooks and on the side by sack-like shapes holding stones. The structure has various hole-like entrances allowing people to step in and surround themselves by the colorful crochets while walking on a comfortable green and purple crocheted surface. Two of the entrances were thin because they were in a curved and serpent-like shape that surrounded the other entrance that is round and spacious. Inside the entrance on the back of the structure is a floor covered in green and purple fuzzy material with a long, thick tube-like structure filled with dry leaves, and accompanied by a small, long tube-like structure that wraps itself around the other structure. Both of them start on the floor and reach the top of the nest that is formed with crochet creating triangles and four-sided shapes. On the sides of the nest, a crochet pattern of triangle and rhombus figures with colors from yellow, sky blue, orange, red, pink, green, purple, and tan surround the viewers as they enter, and even a guitar and a drum were in the nest. This marvelous combination of colors left me mesmerized and gave me a feeling of tranquility. As