Contemporary art very focused works of art and viewer’s interaction and participation, which point of view has been explained well on the Southbank Hayward Gallery in this summer. In fact, Hayward Gallery has been showing two exciting new exhibitions. The Edges of the World and The New Décor use the intersection point of art and design to reshape our understanding of both internal space and surroundings.
For The edges of the world, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, has established an international reputation for his sensuous sculptural work over the past 20 years. This is the first time，I attend the scene of his works of art. It lets me very excited and happy, because he is my one of very favorite contemporary artists, even though I only saw pictures before. Best known for his sensuous sculptures, using his trademark nylon gauze fabric as an analogy for skin, He always creates an abstract, magical world, which let us to explore and discover and experience the true art of beauty, instead of just abstract and difficult concepts and theories of art factions.
This time, the artist has created a colourful space installation looks like merge the inside the body and the city. In this, we can drumming and sit in a red room that represents a heart, relax in cushioned soft spaces that symbolizes a stomach, wander through a sequence very big fabric tube that means intestinal tract, ascend stairs into artworks overhead and look at lots small nylon vessel that symbol nervous system. In the outside terraces has an oversized paddling pool in which visitors can swim, of course it is also an artwork. I really regretted not bringing my swimming trunks.
In short, Neto’s “environment” let me feeling safe and joviality, as if returned to the mother's body, feel like waiting for baby born, So that is the perfect place to bring your children. When we find ourselves becoming active participants in the artworks, no longer seeing artworks in isolation, I feel contacts and resonance. At this point, I feel this artwork is complete.
The New Décor is an international survey of over 30 contemporary artists whose work explores interior design; therefore the display is a bit confusing. Some artists immature and some of them is no good understanding the theme of the exhibition, so that a few of artworks look add and hackneyed and stereotyped. But there still have some excellence artworks, such as Los Carpinteros’ hugely elongated and twisted bed Cama, Roman Signer’s Floating Table.
The two exhibitions are humorous, interactive, and immensely fun, through transforming, using art to explain the spaces in which we live our lives.
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