09.12.2009
postado por: Fortes Vilaça
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ERNESTO NETO
Mitodengo
O artista começou a trabalhar com materiais sólidos em meados de 2006. Durante uma residência de seis meses realizada no Atelier Calder
Em Mitodengo, cada peça de aço apresenta um desenho individual e orgânico, e se encaixam como se fossem módulos, partes de um quebra cabeça.
O artista surpreende mais uma vez ao utilizar um material rígido para formar uma escultura de movimento leve, sinuoso e sensual, tal qual suas obras moles, feitas de tecido. Mitodengo contrapõe sua delicada forma à rudeza e dureza do aço. Para o artista, a obra “pensa a possibilidade de poesia e doçura mesmo num mundo duro como aço. O Dengo é uma maneira de olhar, de cuidar e de abraçar sem tocar, os Mitos são como micro mitos cotidianos, que aparecem e somem como uma linha de um desenho”.
Neto é um dos principais nomes da escultura contemporânea. Em maio deste ano, criou sua maior e mais ambiciosa obra; medindo 21 x 37 x
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Fortes Vilaça is pleased to present its final exhibition of the year: Mitodengo, by
The artist began working with solid materials in mid-2006. During a six-month artist residency at Atelier Calder, in
In Mitodengo, each steel piece presents an individual and organic design, fitting together with the others like the parts of a puzzle. With simple shapes that recall children’s toys from the 1970s, the heavy pieces are assembled without the need for welds or other means of fastening, since their shapes interlock as they are set delicately in place with the help of a crane. The work is one of precise balance and dialogue with gravity – essential characteristics in the oeuvre of this artist – since the object’s stability stems from the relation of tension among the parts instilled by the force of gravity. “Mitodengo is a line sculpture, a drawing in space, a line of points that encounter one another and fit together, kissing each other in a continuous dance of male/female outlines,” Neto states.
Once again, the artist has surprisingly used rigid material to make a sculpture with the same light, sinuous and sensual movement seen in his soft works made of fabric. The delicate form of Mitodengo is counterpoised against the rawness and hardness of the steel. For the artist, this artwork “concerns the possibility of poetry and sweetness even in a world hard like steel. Dengo is a way of looking, caring for and embracing without touching, while the Mitos are like everyday micromyths, that appear and add up like a line of a drawing.”
Neto is a leading name in contemporary sculpture. In May of this year he created his largest and most ambitious work to date: measuring 21 x 37 x