Ernesto Neto for CoCA

25 October marks the opening of a new interdisciplinary and educational program in the ground-floor gallery of the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, with especially designed interiors by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto.

The new interdisciplinary and educational program space at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun (CoCA), Poland starts with a launch of a new name "LabSen": the laboratory of senses.

Ernesto Neto conceived a special project for the multifunctional and educational space as an a open platform for interdisciplinary programs, in which different forms of artistic expression and different ways of experiencing art and its contents will be alternated. Visual and performing arts, music and dance, art-theory and literature will be some of the inputs of this dynamic and multifunctional space which intends to function as a sort of laboratory of senses, or in other (new) words: the "LabSen".

Ernesto Neto's work moves between dyads such as microcosm and macrocosm, organic and synthetic, sensual and spiritual, offering to the viewer an all-encompassing perceptive experience. It arouses our senses and change the idea of boundaries, which Neto never sees as barriers, but as areas of contact, union and interaction. It is a frail frontier, open to permeation between an individual and the world, a threshold as sensitive as skin, which dares us to "think through our pores" and recognize that, as he puts it, sensations and "emotions are the only reality of human communication". Based on these convictions, Neto's work acts as a powerful stimulus to reconsider our place in the world that is increasingly moving towards a form of materialism so extreme that it clouds the meaning of words such as "individual", "community", "freedom" and "diversity".
Opening: LabSen, new interdisciplinary and educational space in CoCA, designed by Ernesto Neto in Torun. Above: <i>Atissuemospher</i>, Ernesto Neto, Hayward Gallery, London
Opening: LabSen, new interdisciplinary and educational space in CoCA, designed by Ernesto Neto in Torun. Above: Atissuemospher, Ernesto Neto, Hayward Gallery, London
Neto's works do not strive simply to open up channels through which we can feel the living pulse of the nature, but especially those that experiment with new forms of communication and interpersonal relationships. Therefore his design-intervention in CoCA Torun is ideal departing point for the new set of interdisciplinary and educational programs. "Laboratory of senses" — a new environment designed by Ernesto Neto — will function as a space opened to all kind of activities connected with arts and education. Dedicated to the local community and young art public of Torun, this place will stand for openness, malleability, playfulness, cosiness, simplicity and comfort in different experimental programs that it will be offering: music sessions and video screenings, lectures and panels, workshops for children and students and art lessons for the people of every age.
<i>Circleprototemple…!</i>, Ernesto Neto (2010), Hayward Gallery, London
Circleprototemple…!, Ernesto Neto (2010), Hayward Gallery, London
<i>The Sun Lits Life, Let the Son</i>, Ernesto Neto (2012), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
The Sun Lits Life, Let the Son, Ernesto Neto (2012), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
<i>Anthropodino</i>, Ernesto Neto (2009), Park Avenue Armory, New York
Anthropodino, Ernesto Neto (2009), Park Avenue Armory, New York

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