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Permanent installations at the ReefLine, Miami Beach's first Underwater Sculpture Park
offlineThe ReefLine will be a new 7-mile underwater public sculpture park, snorkel trail and artificial reef located off Miami Beach’s shoreline. The large-scale environmental public art project has been conceived by cultural placemaker Ximena Caminos, who will serve as the project’s Artistic director. Led by Shohei Shigematsu, OMA will design the ReefLine’s masterplan as well as a distinct sculpture within it, collaborating with a team of expert marine biologists, researchers, architects and costal engineers.
The ReefLine will provide a critical habitat for endangered reef organisms, promoting biodiversity and enhancing coastal resilience. For the masterplan, OMA has designed a geometric, concrete modular unit that can be deployed and stacked from South Beach to the north, following the topography of the sea bed. The living breakwater is the connective tissue for the overall masterplan and will be punctuated by a series of site-specific installations.
The project will be completed in phases, with the first mile slated to open December 2021—the first phase will open with permanent installations by Argentine conceptual artist Leandro Erlich (b. 1973) and Shohei Shigematsu/OMA. The project will also include new commissions by Ernesto Neto (b. 1964, Brazil) and Agustina Woodgate (b. 1981, Argentina).
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When Forms Come Alive: Sixty Years of Restless Sculpture (group show)
Hayward Gallery, London
7 February – 6 May 2024
Work by Ernesto Neto will be included in the group exhibition When Forms Come Alive, at the Hayward Gallery, London. Spanning over 60 years of contemporary sculpture, the exhibition highlights the ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth.
Hayward Gallery
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Remedios: Where new land might grow (group show)
Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
14 April 2023 – 31 March 2024
Ernesto Neto’s BasnepuruTxanaYubé, 2015, is on view in the exhibition Remedios: Where new land might grow. The crochet installation is the result of a collaboration between the artist and the Huni Kuin – an indigenous people of Brazil and Peru – and incorporates their teachings and healing practices into its material and symbolic elements. The work’s structure is borrowed from Huni Kuin meeting places and echoes their function as sites of social assembly, ritual practice, and spiritual healing. Alongside BasnepuruTxanaYubé, the exhibition considers further works of contemporary art which engage notions of planetary and humanitarian recovery.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
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Camelocama (installation)
Flamboyant Shopping, Goiânia
Ernesto Neto's Camelocama, 2010, is now on view at the Flamboyant Shopping Centre in Goiânia. Evoking the canopy of a tree, the crochet installation takes inspiration from the makeshift architecture of street vendors in the artist's native Brazil and uses gravity as its central element, inviting visitors to lay under or walk through the structure's hanging appendages.
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Slug Turtle, TemplEarth, 2022 (installation)
Commissioned by Qatar Museums, Qatar
Ernesto Neto’s immersive installation Slug Turtle, TemplEarth, 2022, has been unveiled in the desert of Qatar’s northernmost region, near the Al Zubarah and Ain Mohammed heritage sites. Composed of 8 football goal frames arranged in an octagonal ring and surrounded by white crocheted netting, the site-specific installation invites viewers to communicate with the spirit of the desert. ‘The work creates a space to meditate about our present, past and future in a social-ecological network shared by humans, birds, bugs, plants and all forms of life,’ the artist explains.
The work joins more than 100 public artworks commissioned by Qatar Museums in time for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.