Review: With the Amazon rainforest on fire, Ernesto Neto's art opens a jungle clearing

A narrow tunnel of fabric in a rippling green pattern greets you at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Work your way through, batting curtains to the side, and you arrive at a clearing in Neto’s jungle.

Welcoming orange futons in organic shapes on the floor nestle together like puzzle pieces, while simple drums and rattles made from gourds are tethered to the cushions. In the center, a padded mallet and a bronze Tibetan singing bowl for meditation await ritual use.Ernesto Neto’s “Children of the Earth,” 2019, mixed media.

Eighteen hoodies in fabric that matches the entry tunnel hang on hooks, available to wear, but they feel like superfluous costuming. The work’s most impressive feature is instead a multicolored, open-weave superstructure of knotted cotton strips suspended from the ceiling. Pendulous crocheted sacks in various sizes are stuffed with natural substances — crackly dried leaves; pungent fennel, basil, cloves and turmeric; clacking pebbles and more.

The sacks are marvelously counterbalanced with one another by a simple — one could say organic — system of ropes and hooks to keep the apparatus stretched and suspended through gravity and mass. The webbed contraption looks something like an unraveled alimentary canal — esophagus, stomach and intestines.

'The Amazon rainforest . . aflame from a greedy mix of agribusiness and climate change.' Mostly the fires in Brazil are indeed set by man, and is mostly the annual burning of fields, Palm oil plantings, and of cleared forest growth. Man-made climate change plays no role - none.

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