The Museum of Modern Art has commissioned New York-based artist Teresita Fernández and Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto to create large-scale, site-specific works in the Garden Hall and on the large glass window overlooking The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, which closed in August for the Museum's building project. Fernández transforms the space with a sprawling, organic pattern, while Neto's installation provides viewers with a sensual exploration of the visual, the olfactory, and the tactile. The works will be on view as part of Open Ends, the third and final cycle of MoMA2000, from September 28, 2000 through January 2, 2001.

"Since we know that we will all miss the Sculpture Garden so much, we are going to bring it indoors for a little while," notes Paola Antonelli, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, who organized the installation with Claudia Schmuckli, Curatorial Assistant to the Chief Curator at Large.

Teresita Fernández's work is characterized by an expansive rethinking of what constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders to the more elusive psychic landscapes we carry within. Fernández unravels the intimacies between matter, human beings, and locations. Her luminous, sculptural works poetically challenge ideas about land and landscape by amplifying the powerful, emotional connection in how we imagine place, and, by extension, one another. Fernández exposes the complex narratives that stem from distorted, colonial histories, elaborating on these themes in subtle ways that insist on intertwining beauty, the socio-political, the intimate, and the immense. Imagining the landscape with reciprocal sentience, Fernández has said “You look at the landscape, but the landscape also looks back at you."

Fernández is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards, including a Creative Capital Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award; an American Academy of Rome Fellowship (AFAAR); and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant in Visual Arts, among others. Her works have been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Menil Collection; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; SITE Santa Fe; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art; MASS MoCA; and Castello di Rivoli, Italy, among others. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

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