Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City at M.E.T.
14/05/2012.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [NYC] USA 15.05 > 04.11.2012
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
Cloud City is lent by Christian Keesee.
Habitat-like, incorporating transparent and reflective materials, the work will also be accessible for visitors—in limited numbers, weather permitting, by timed-ticket entry—to experience its interior realms and exterior vistas via an internal route. Set against Central Park, Manhattan’s skyline, and the expanse of space above and beyond, the installation Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City—part of the artist’s series Cloud Cities/Air Port City—suggests a model for living, interaction, and social exchange. This is be the 15th consecutive single-artist installation for the Museum’s Cantor Roof Garden. Cloud City is the artist’s first major commission in the United States.
Visitors may enter and walk through these habitat-like, modular structures grouped in a nonlinear configuration. Over the past decade, Saraceno has established a practice of constructing habitable networks based upon complex geometries and interconnectivity that merge art, architecture, and science. The multidisciplinary project “Cloud Cities/Air Port City” is rooted in the artist’s investigation of expanding the ways in which we inhabit and experience our environment.
According to artist Tomás Saraceno: “Upside down, Central Park is a flying garden embedded in a cumulus cloud, mirrored buildings and skies appear under your feet, gravity seems to reorient itself, and people are multiplied in patchworks of cloudscape, forming unexpected interconnected networks…Cloud City is an invitation to perceive simultaneously a multiplicity of realities, making overlapping and multireflective connections between things, affecting and challenging our perceptions. Cloud City is a vehicle for our imagination, ready to transport us beyond social, political, and geographical states of mind.”
Venue: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. USA.
Dates: May 15 – November 4, 2012.
Tomás Saraceno born San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina (1973). He lives and works between and beyond the planet earth. He has degree architect, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Argentina (1992-1999), Postgraduate on Art & Architecture, Escuela Superior de bellas Ares de la Nación Ernesto de la Carcova,(1999-2000),Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule-Frankfurt am Main,(2001-2003), Postgraduate on Art and Architecture, Venezia Italia- Progettazione e Produzione delle Arti Visive- IUAV,(2003-2004), International Space Studies Program, NASA Center Ames, Silicon Valley, California, Summer 2009.
He has a permanent installations as; "On clouds (Air-port-City)" in Towada Arts Center, Towada,(Japan) and "Flying Garden", EPO Munich, (Germany).
He had recibed awars as a Kunstpreis-1822, (2010), Calder Prize-Calder Foundation in asociation with Scone Fundation,(2009), Hessische Kulsturstiftung in Rotterdam,(2003-2004), el Fondo Nacional de las Artes-Argentina Italy-Venice IUAV(2003-2004) and the first Prize in Bundeswettbewerb des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung, (2003).
Saraceno has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, and permanent installations at museums and institutions internationally, including the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (2022); The Shed, New York (2022); Towada Art Center, Japan (2021); Carte Blanche at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires (2017); K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Standehaus, Dusseldorf (2013); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); and Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2011), and is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fundació Sorigué Fundación Hortensia Herrero, Arnault Collection, Boros Collection Fontanals-Cisneros, TBA 21 (Thyssen Bornemisza Collection), Espace Muraille Dragonfly Collection, Fundación Helga de Alvear, Foster Collection, Sammlung KiCo, Kupferstichkabinett Museum Berlin, and QAGOMA Brisbane, among others.
Saraceno has participated in numerous festivals and bienales, including the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale (2020) and the 53rd and 58th Venice Bienales (2009, 2019).