Tomás Saraceno: Aerosolar Journeys

Curated by Sabine Schaschl

With his spatial installations at the intersection between art, architecture and the natural sciences, Tomás Saraceno asks questions about future forms of “more-than-human” dwelling. His artistic research can be seen as an invitation to reconsider ecological and social relationships. Saraceno was trained as an architect and artist, and attended Thomas Bayrle’s master class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt.

Tomás Saraceno sees his multidisciplinary work as artistic research, in which he pursues the notion of a “realizable utopia.” Inspired by physical and biological phenomena, such as the thermodynamics of the atmosphere or the structures of spider webs, he works together with relevant experts, including biologists, engineers and architects, developing sensational works: enormous air-filled sculptures that float upwards, relying on nothing more than solar radiation and the infrared radiation from the Earth’s surface, or web structures that are as spectacular as they are delicate. His visionary projects can be linked to the Russian constructivists and suprematists Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky, who were already pursuing the notion of flying cities in their day. In response to global, ecological and societal challenges, Saraceno’s works act as models for future, sustainable living.

Part of the exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv is dedicated to Saraceno’s latest works and experiments from his project Aerocene, the era of air. Alongside Aerocene, spiders and web structures are also exhibited. Saraceno lets spiders encounter the webs of other spider species and observes the emergence of new, hybrid web structures, conceptually reminiscent of hypermodern cityscapes, or of the cosmic web—a term used to describe the structure of the early observable universe.

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