Tomas Saraceno
I recently visited SFMOMA to see their latest exhibition, Tomas Saraceno: Stillness In Motion - Cloud Cities. The show was organized by the museum's Architecture and Design department and is located on the 5th floor of the museum. Saraceno's sculptures are suspended throughout a white room, tethered by various gauges of black wire. Each geometric form contains reflective panels, which almost blend into the space, creating further dimension and a blurred sense of place. Visitors are encouraged to walk around the space, looking at the forms from varying angles while weaving in and out of the complex network of cables. The room itself if painted white, providing high contrast to the various gauges of black cables while further obscuring the viewer's depth perception.
About Tomás Saraceno
Born in Argentina and trained as an architect and visual artist in Buenos Aires and Frankfurt, Tomás Saraceno is a research-based artist whose work envisions and tests hypothetical solutions that employ aeronautic and structural strategies, drawing from scientific investigations and collaborations in physics, biology, cosmology and engineering. His work has deep sociological motives, with undercurrents of human connection and the pursuit and provocation of speculative futures.
Saraceno is dedicated to exploring and questioning the intersections between the built and the natural world. Founded in Frankfurt but now located in Berlin, his studio operates like a laboratory and network, with multiple collaborators working internally and externally in researching and realizing works, from large-scale inhabitable installations, to the intricate structures of soap bubbles and spider webs, to the first and the longest manned aerosolar flight ever achieved.
Saraceno holds residencies at Centre National d’Études Spatiales (2014–2015), MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (2012–ongoing) and Atelier Calder (2010). In 2009, Saraceno attended the International Space Studies Program at NASA Ames. The same year Saraceno presented a major installation at the Venice Biennale, and was later awarded the prestigious Calder Prize. His installation works have been included in exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, HangarBicocca, Milan, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein -Westfalen K21, Dusseldorf.
My goal with this match was to really blend into the cloud-space, creating a visual illusion that mimics the stark contrast between the thin cables against the white walls. To do this I wore this on-trend Lavish Alice dress that is form-fitting, has a collar detail, along with two front slits that show a little leg!
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