Tomas Saraceno
dal 13/9/2011 al 14/1/2012
Segnalato da
13/9/2011
Tomas Saraceno
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Cloud Cities. Saraceno's installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture. His works invite the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground. The artist creates gardens that hang in the air and allow visitors to float in space, fulfilling a dream shared by all humankind.
Tomás Saraceno's installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture.
His works are utopian and invite the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground. The artist creates gardens that hang in the air and allow visitors to float in space, fulfilling a dream shared by all humankind. Saraceno draws inspiration from soap bubbles and the incredible strength and flexibility of spider webs.
The interests of the artist (born in 1973, in Tucuman/Argentina) are broad and he moves with confidence from place to place throughout the world. With his studio in Frankfurt, it is unsurprising that the city's international airport plays an important role in his work. Everything he does appears to develop from a certain degree of boundlessness, motivated by an interest in the changes taking place in the world in which we live. Each of his objects invites the viewer to consider alternative forms of knowledge, feelings and our interaction with others.
The exhibition in the Hamburger Bahnhof will for the first time see approx. 20 of his balloon models go on show at one time. The exhibition will give visitors the chance to see for themselves how the hanging settlements interact with each other and the space, not merely by observing them from afar, but by actually entering them.
The exhibition, presented by the National Museums in Berlin, has been made possible by the Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie and sponsored by Dornbracht Installation Projects, 2011 (www.dornbracht.com). With thanks to the Outset Contemporary Art Fund, London, for their generous donation of the work 'Observatory' to the Nationalgalerie's collection.
Image: Observatory/Air-Port-City, Hayward Gallery, London, 2008 Gesamthöhe: 9,6 m © Courtesy: The artist and Andersen's Contemporary, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, pinksummer contemporary art, Foto: Courtesy Tomás Saraceno
Press Contact:
Anne Schäfer-Junker - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Fax: +49 (0)30-266 423409 Tel: +49 (0)30 266 42 34 02
Opening: 14th September 2011, h 8p.m.
Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstrasse 50/51, Berlin
Opening Hours:
Tue - Fri 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sat 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sun 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Mon closed
Admission ticket:
12 euro, discounted admission 6 euro