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".





Design and ceramics renew a shopping center
FMG Fabbrica Marmi and architect Paolo Gianfrancesco, of THG Arkitektar Studio, have designed the restyling of the third floor of Reykjavik's largest shopping center. Ceramic, the central element of the project, covers floors, walls and furniture with versatile solutions and distinctive character.