Lower East

La Biennale di Venezia 2017

Some beautiful, sunny and cold November days the Lower East delegation visited the Biennale in Venezia – enjoyed all the art, the pavilions, the Arsenale areal, and most of all the exhibition ‘Intuition’ in Palazzo Fortuny.

A wonderful experience to be surrounded by such fantastic art for days! At the same time we loved hanging out in Venezia with our interns Sussie & Juliana.

Thanks to La Biennale di Venezia! We’ll be back!

Some impressions from the art days:

Voices of the Forest

The Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto is right now having an wonderful exhibition, Voices of the Forest, at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark. The exhibition will run until mid of October this year.

We at Lower East designed the book for the exhibition – you can see and read more about the book and the exhibition under our work at our website.

Ernesto Neto at KUNSTEN

On the 21 April Lower East went to the opening of Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s “Rui ni, Voices of the Forest” at KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg. We – and a lot of other guests – enjoyed the wonderful atmosphere in the exhibition, the colourful and lively installation. The big hall in the museum was covered in textiles, drawings, knitted spaces, a soft floor, pillows, instruments etc. in fantastic colours. We felt that the room invites the guests to relax and explore, to talk with each other – and lie down and embrace nature. An amazing experience.

Enesto Neto came to Aalborg together with a group of Huni Kuin people from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, with whom he created the installation. The opening days was an interesting mix of speeches, ceremonies, dancing and singing.

The exhibition will be on view until the 23 October 2016.

From the museum website:
“Ernesto Neto (born 1964) is considered one of Brazil’s top-artists of today and his popular works are exhibited across the world. He is an artist of sensuality and does a brilliant job involving the audience in his magnificent installations, created to fit the exhibition space they ‘live’ with.

At Kunsten, Ernesto Neto will create his biggest location-specific installation in Denmark to date. Just like Alvar Aalto, Ernesto Neto finds inspiration in the nature and its shapes, and we can not wait to invite our audience into an unforgettable experience at Kunsten.

“I’m a sculpture and I think as a sculpture,” Neto says, as he will be transforming the main exhibition hall at Kunsten into a sensual installation called “Voices of the Forest”. Ernesto Neto challenges our traditional perception of the sculpture and transforms the main exhibition hall into a form of living organism. Ernesto Neto has created “Rui ni, Voices of the Forest” in collaboration with Txanabane and his Huni Kuin family.”

We at Lower East are at the moment finishing the design of the catalogue for the exhibition, which a.o. will present an interview with the artist by Senior Curator Stinna Toft, who visited Neto in his studio in Rio and documented the work process in text and photos. The book will also present a huge amount of spectacular photos from “Voices of the Forest“ at the museum by photographer Anders Sune Berg.

See more at the museum website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art and art and art

It’s season for exhibition openings! On Thursday April 21th Lower East will do their best to attend at least two very interesting exhibition openings in Denmark. Ernesto Neto – Voices of the Forest at Kunsten, Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg and Ornament – a Panorama of Colours and Patterns at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft.

We were so privileged to be asked to do the graphic design of the catalogues for both of the exhibitions. The one for ‘Ornament’ at the Glasmuseum is already done, designed & printed, and arrived successfully at the museum this week, the catalogue for Ernesto Neto will include pictures from the installation created especially for the exhibition and from the opening, and will be finished & printed as soon as possible, and be approachable at the museum around mid of May.

Maybe we will meet you at one of the openings?
Ernesto Neto – Voices of the Forest. Thursday April 21th at Kunsten, Museum of Modern Art. Aalborg, Denmark.
The exhibition will be on show until October 23rd 2016.
Find more info at Kunsten’s website.

Ornament – a Panorama of Colours and Patterns. Thursday April 21th at Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark.
This exhibition will run until September 25th 2016.
More info at the museums website.