(1973 - Tucumán, Argentina)
Education: Postgraduate in Art & Architecture, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Postgraduate in Art & Architecture, Escuela Superior de bellas Ares de la Nación Ernesto de la Carcova, Buenos Aires,
UBA- Degree Architect, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999
UBA- Degree Architect, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1999
From ''The Creators Project''
Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno is known for his fantastic
sculptures and installations that merge art, architecture, and science.
Saraceno's work draws on his training as an architect, exploring materials,
man-made and natural structures, and the potential for a space. His spectacular
works are dreamy and experimental, compelling viewers to re-imagine the world
and its possibilities.
Saraceno is the winner of the Calder Prize and was artist-in-residence at the
International Space Studies Program of NASA in summer 2009. In 2012, has constructed installation Cloud City for the roof of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York, creating a complex network of transparent and reflective
planes that disrupted the space while heightening the elements around it - the
viewers, the sky, and Central Park.
Beyond this all too immediate aesthetic impression of a
technological reconstruction of nature’s magisterial beauty, Saraceno is
operating more metaphorically.
(his projects) are intended as an exegesis of Air-Port-Cities,
which Saraceno outlined in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist as: ‘a flying
airport […] This structure seeks to challenge today’s political, social,
cultural and military restrictions in an attempt to re-establish new concepts
of synergy.
Up in the sky there will be this cloud, a habitable platform that
floats in the air, changing form and merging with other platforms just as
clouds do.
It will fly through the atmosphere pushed by the winds, both local
and global, in an attempt to equalize the (social) temperature and differences
in pressure.’
