Between Earth & Sky: Natural Environment Installation by Ernesto Net

Ernesto Neto has brought the concept of an immersive environment with the play of bright colors, scents, and sounds to New York's Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. The exhibition entitled "Between Earth and Sky" was exhibited from May 14 to June 16, 2022. This single cast occupies the two floors of the Tanya Bonakdar gallery with two large installations that invite visitors to relax and observe a garden intended for visitors to be able to garden within the gallery.

Ernesto Neto highlights the cycles of nature in the installation.

This exhibition of Ernesto Neto's work features a spider web-shaped installation made of woven yarn filled with various objects such as spices, sand, and sea shells. Inspired by nature, minimalist sculpture, craft culture, and the Brazilian avant-garde movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Neto combines its design forms with organic materials to engage all the five senses of visitors and create interactions between artworks and visitors.

Earthtreelifelove - Installations about the relationship between nature and man.

On the first floor of the gallery, Neto performs "Earthtreelifelove" featuring an installation about the relationship between humans and the environment that highlights the cycles of nature. The knitted round carpet is depicted as the earth and the ocean, while the spider webs hanging from the ceiling are depicted as the sky and leaves falling from the trees. In this installation, visitors can lie down and look up to feel a calm atmosphere for meditation and reflection. Meanwhile, on the wall, there are 250 blobs of thread intended as human footsteps moving across the earth, "Steps and Leaves."

"Between Earth and Sky" - installations for relaxing and growing crops.

In addition, on the second floor, Ernesto Neto creates a garden illuminated by natural light coming in from the skylight. This artwork consists of spices, gravel, organic matter, soil, plants, and nets that form raindrops. This installation invites visitors to grow crops, thus creating a relationship between humans and the natural environment. The garden surrounded by bricks is intended as a shelter where plants can thrive.

The installation exhibition created by Ernesto Neto is intended as a place to appreciate the natural environment by cultivating crops so that nature is maintained so that nature and humans can develop and coexist. 

The garden is illuminated by natural light through skylights.