Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has created anthropodino, an "immense interactive installation" at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City:
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.
Inside those "fabric stalactites" are 1,650 lbs of spices, including clove, cumin, ginger, turmeric, black pepper and ginger.
Here is Ernesto Neto talking about the installation:
Ernesto Neto's anthropodino runs through June 14. General admission is $10; kids under 18 are free.
(quote and image via armoryonpark.org, additional information via bloomberg, nytimes.com)
He is dear. I love what he said about touching. Even though he did not refer to the fragrances, I made the leap to how all sensual experience relates to love. And how perfume involves so much touching. “Love is better”–fantastic.
I want to dive into that ball pit.
I’m thinking, enormous whole-house sachets. Love this.
Even if they do look sort of like a cluster of scrota.
I think it’s because of that other scented art thing, with the onions & veggies hanging in condoms, that my first thought was: jeez, what if they break open??
Yay! This looks much better executed than some of the other scent installations I’ve seen. I’ll be in the city soon and look forward to visiting it.
Goodie, do report back! This looks like great fun.
Dear, indeed; love is better, for sure! I must now go and put on some Poivre in his honor!
Did he do the thing with the vegetables?
Good thing I have a gift certificate to my favorite Indian restaurant because I’m kind of hungry now.
No, that was someone else.
Very cool! I would love to wander through a spice labyrinth!
Me too!
Man, I wish I lived in New York.
Yep, me too.
We were lucky to have Zahara Hadid Chanel moble art in HK….It was an awesome sensory experience…i too would love to be in NY in this anthropodino and float through…
I would have loved to have seen that too!