Wednesday, April 24, 2024
In Ernesto Neto's Largest Installation to Date, the World Is a Crocheted Ship Moving to a Single Rhythm
Colossal: An enormous, cascading installation of crocheted fabric strips stretches across a cavernous gallery in Ernesto Neto’s newest exhibition. At MAAT in Lisbon, the Brazilian artist (previously) presents Nosso Barco Tambor Terra, which translates to “our boat drum Earth,” a solo exhibition encompassing one of the largest suspended sculptures he has ever made.
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It’s incredible the amount of work that goes into making something like this; the pictures at the end of the article show the amount of work and detail. Art is just something else, the fact that strips of crocheted fabric can have so many meanings and represent so many different things is truly incredible. I like the quote “The piece suggests “a ship, a primordial beast, a forest, or even, and more likely, all of those things and infinite others,” it’s a good summation of how the meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. I do find it interesting that there isn’t any quotes from the artist himself, Ernesto Neto, about why he created Nosso Barco Tambor Terra. Everything stated seems to be merely speculation from others, speculations stated as nods to something. They throw in that the artist considers something but don’t have anything to back up those words with.
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