![]() Also presented in the gallery is a DIT (Do-It-Together) kit - “Museo Aero Solar” is not a singular object it can be created as a DIT project wherever people embrace the possibility of flying free from carbon. Shoes must be taken off before entering the sculpture, and one can marvel, standing under its enormous plastic dome, at the ingenuity of its quilt-like construction. (Photo: Nicholas Knight).Ī large-scale installation of one of them, grounded, is on view in Gallery 4. Reused plastic bags, tape, ventilator, polyester rope. The sculptures are capable of flying using only the power of the sun and, thanks to their biomorphic shapes, are a decidedly arresting sight. One of those collaborations, the Aerocene Foundation, ushers in the era of Aerocene, which, unlike the Anthropocene era, is a society free from carbon emissions and, ultimately, from fossil fuel: “a stateless state, both tethered and free-floating a community, an open-source initiative.” Conceived by Studio Tomás Saraceno, it emerged in 2007 through “Museo Aero Solar”-”a traveling project in which aerosolar sculptures are created out of plastic bags brought by people from various communities worldwide. The artist generates this awareness through the initiation of community-led artistic explorations of “new modes of sensitivity” and “ethical collaborations,” enabling new hybrid relationships involving multiple entities: from spiders to humans and gravitational waves to dust particles. It has evolved from his life-long obsessions-spiders and air balloons by taking an unconventional look at the interactions between the layers of earthly habitats, his work questions the nature of perception, inviting awareness of other-than-human forms within and beyond the boundaries of our planet. ![]() WHERE: The Shed, 545 West 30th street, NYC.Īt the heart of Saraceno’s artistic practice is a revision of the anthropocentric and gravity-bound paradigm. WHAT: “Tomas Saraceno: Particular Matter(s)” Organized by The Shed’s curator Emma Enderby and its assistant curators Alessandra Gómez and Adeze Wilford, it’s the artist’s largest exhibition in the United States to date - we cannot but be grateful to Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group for the building’s adaptive structure capable of accommodating this unusual retrospective. ![]() “ Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s)” has taken over two-thirds of The Shed’s exposition space and features Saraceno’s existing and newly commissioned works. If you are unfamiliar with the work of Argentine-born, Berlin-based artist and visionary polymath Tomás Saraceno, then even more reason to rush with a visit as there are only two weeks left before the end of this spectacular show. Welcome to Aerocene and Arachnophilia, magnificently presented on 25,000 square feet of exposition space at The Shed in New York. Courtesy: the artist and Arachnophilia Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/ Los Angeles Neugerriemschneider, Berlin Andersen’s, Copenhagen Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires and Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa. Spider silk, carbon fiber, microphone, transducer, speakers, light, computer software, video camera.
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