Aerosolar Journeys Tomás Saraceno
February 11—April 30, 2017
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen

Aerosolar Journeys Tomás Saraceno

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Museo Aero Solar, 2007–ongoing Reused plastic bags, ventilator, tape, polyester rope, fabric The work is a flying museum, a solar sculpture entirely made from reused plastic bags, with new sections being added each time it travels the world, thus changing techniques, drawings, and shapes, and growing in size every time it sets sail in the air. Museo Aero Solar stands for a different conception of space and energy, both anomalous and forceful at the same time. Sunny Day, 2017 Mylar transparent and metalized, tape, pump with overpressure release valve, polyester rope, net, metal ring The inflatable structures that make up the installation communicate a new way of flying, one that relies only on the difference in temperature between inside and outside the sculpture, heated only by the sun and the infrared radiation of the Earth. Floating like this provides an alternative to the linear vector flight of propulsion technology, replacing it with sympoetic choreography. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Press Release

Tomás Saraceno (born 1973, in San Miguel, Argentina) is convinced that art can change the world. He studied Art and Architecture at Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, before relocating to Europe in 2001. Other stages in his education were the Städelschule in Germany (under Thomas Bayrle) and Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (under Hans Ulrich Obrist and Olafur Eliasson). Today, Saraceno lives and works in Berlin, where he and his team work on exhibition projects....
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