Ernesto Neto Presents Anthropodino

An Epic Installation in Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Curated by Tom Eccles.

Park Avenue Armory launches its first commissioned art installation with anthropodino, a large-scale, interactive work by world-renowned artist, Ernesto Neto. Using hundreds of yards of translucent material, Neto suspends a gigantic canopy from the drill hall’s latticework truss, spanning 120 feet wide and 180 feet long. Magnificent, aromatic “fabric stalactites” descend 60 feet to embrace a vast labyrinth of passageways and rooms.

To quote the artist, “…each place becomes the site of a realization, so the viewer is very close to the realization of the art; nothing has been previously judged, not even by the artist, and in the end we are all seeing it together for the first time: the artist and the public, and this creates an adventurous situation!”

A native of Rio de Janeiro, Ernesto Neto represented Brazil in the Venice Biennale (2001), was commissioned by the Ministry for Culture & Communication and Festival d’Automne, Paris for his mammoth installation in the Pantheon (2006) and his work forms part of the private collections at MoMA, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The American Fund for the Tate Gallery Collection, London and the Magasin 3 Stockholm Konstall, Estocolmo, Sweden, among others.