Nest series
The nest, made by a bird from fiberglass threads it took from the artist’s studio, was found in the garden by Cravo Neto’s son. It became a still-life work placed on a table covered with a worn-out canvas, in a silent and grave photo series. A minimalist ethic permeated by unaffected lyricism.
Fire series
The fire series was initiated right after his return from New York in the early 1970s. It makes explicit several recurring elements in Cravo Neto’s poetics: the tension between natural and artificial, the performative aspect of the photographic gesture, the hybridization between sculpture and images, the serial composition, and his interest in symbolism.
GW-41 Persian Gulf
A video work produced with images taken from American television during the war in Gulf. A radical combination of real and virtual. In spite of it all, Cravo Neto extracts poetry from this. Rough, straightforward, cruel, tragic. In his own words, “this might be the freest of my works. It relates to synchronicity, chance and the gestural.”
—L.C.O.