Exhibitions

Ernesto Neto Born in1964 in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives and works, Neto is one of the most important figures in the current Brazilian art scene. He is the heir to the Brazilian art movement known as Neo-Concreto, which for the first time places the spectator at the centre of the creative action, thereby converting physical interaction into a key aspect of his work. The spectator is invited to touch, smell and enter the space created. The organic forms of his work are related to the observation of the body as a representation of an internal landscape and give an impression of fragility and sensuality. His production is situated somewhere between sculpture and installation. Neto works with abstract installations which often take up the whole expositional space, creating spatial labyrinths in which fine membranes –stretched taught and fixed at various points– containing spices of varying colours and aromas (saffron, cloves) hang down here and there in the shape of enormous droplets. The main elements and materials used in his works are the elasticity of the fabrics, the force of gravity, spices and polythene foam. His works have been shown in countless collective and individual exhibitions all over the world: MoMA, New York, Tate Modern Gallery, London, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, MNAM Centro George Pompidou, Paris, MOCA, Miami, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 49th Venice Biennial, 5th Mercosur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Panthéon, Paris, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma

Jessica Morgan Born in 1968, she lives in London, where she works as the contemporary art curator at the Tate Modern. Morgan completed her undergraduate and post-graduate studies in Great Britain and the Unites States. She was chief curator at the Boston Contemporary Art Institute, where she organized exhibitions by artists including Olafur Eliasson, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas and Cornelio Parker. Prior to that, she was the curator at the Chicago Contemporary Art Museum, where she organized the first North American study on the work of Mona Hatoum, and at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum. She often sits on selection committees for international prizes, such as the 2005 Beck’s Futures Prize at London’s Institute of Contemporary Art, and the 2006 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Visual Arts, and she is also a member of the Board of Independent Curators International based in New York. Morgan has published and given numerous lectures on contemporary art. Her essays can be enjoyed in numerous exhibition and museum catalogues and in the specialized publications Parkett, Artforum, Art Review, Grand Street and The Art Newspaper.