Tomás Saraceno

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Tomás Saraceno

Tomás Saraceno (* 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán ) is an Argentine performance and installation artist .

education

Saraceno studied art and architecture at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) from 1992 to 1999 . From 1999 to 2000 he did postgraduate studies at the Escuela Superior de bellas Artes Ernesto de la Carcova in Buenos Aires . From 2001 to 2003 he completed postgraduate studies in art and architecture at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule , Frankfurt am Main with Thomas Bayrle and Ben van Berkel . From 2003 to 2004 he attended the course “Progettazione e Produzione delle Arti Visive” at the University of Venice (UAV) with Professors Hans Ulrich Obrist and Olafur Eliasson . In the summer of 2009, he participated in the International Space Studies Program at NASA Ames Research Center , Silicon Valley , California.

Saraceno has lived in Germany since 2001.

plant

Recurring motifs in Saraceno's three-dimensional, mostly room-filling work are linked space capsules that "[...] are intended to provide alternative living space under the auspices of climate change and population growth." They show living and housing models that create new ideas for social interactions within a global collaboration could.

At the Sonsbeek International Sculpture Exhibition 2008 he presented a “flying greenhouse”, which consisted of thirty-two helium-filled balloons held together by a net. The resulting “cloud” had a diameter of 10 meters. At the Venice Biennale in 2009 he examined alternative life strategies with a room installation consisting of crystal PVC sculptures and elastic ropes under the title Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web . In 2018, Saraceno treated the room like an instrument, he created a map with an arachnologist in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, in which the spider population was meticulously recorded, which vibrate their webs. In 2019, Saraceno set up a large network and sound installation: a nearly three and a half kilometers long, black cord was pulled through the white exhibition space; when it came into contact with the cord, an echo-like sound was heard, creating an ambient space made up of eighteen different sound sculptures. With his work, Saraceno uses art to recall the important contribution made by spiders to the ecosystem.

In addition to the spiders, his conceptual practice also deals with models that should enable emission-free flying. With recourse to the artist Olafur Eliasson , he works on a natural-laboratory aesthetic. The Berlin art magazine Monopol placed Saraceno in seventh place in its Top 100 in 2019.

Exhibitions

Installations

  • 2007: Flying Garden , EPO Munich, Germany
  • 2008: On clouds (Air-Port-City) Towada Arts Center, Towada, Japan
  • 2011: Cloud-Specific , Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  • 2012: Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud Cities , Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City, New York, USA
  • 2013: in orbit , in the glass dome of the K 21 Ständehaus of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2018/19: Aerocene , interior of the Karlskirche , Vienna
  • 2019: Algo-r (h) i (y) thms , Galerie Esther Schipper , Berlin

Prices

  • 2003 Hessische Kulturstiftung , education grant, one year stay in Rotterdam,
  • 2003–2004 scholarship from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Argentina) for the IUAV, Venice
  • 2009 Calder Prize - Calder Foundation in collaboration with the Scone Foundation
  • 2010 1822 Art Prize , Frankfurt am Main

Literature (selection)

  • Nathalie Kitchens: Tomás Saraceno. In: Georg-Kolbe-Museum (Ed.): Vanitas - Eternal is nothing. Exhibition catalog, Berlin, 2014, p. 62.
  • Tomás Saraceno: A Jules Verne of concrete utopia. A conversation by Heinz-Norbert Jocks . In: Kunstforum International, Vol. 253, 2018, pp. 148–167

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Arachnophilia. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Reason for the award of the 1822 Foundation of Frankfurter Sparkasse for the 1822 Art Prize, 2010
  3. ↑ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on May 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ Vanitas - Nothing is everlasting. Georg Kolbe Museum , accessed on September 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ Trapped in the network at Deutschlandfunk Kultur on October 19, 2018
  6. ^ Carte Blanche to Tomás Saraceno . In: Palais de Tokyo EN . August 6, 2018 ( palaisdetokyo.com [accessed October 21, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Saraceno, Tomás
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian installation and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH San Miguel de Tucuman , Argentina