Anthropocène Monument with Tomás Saraceno
October 3, 2014—January 4, 2015
Les Abattoirs, FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse

Anthropocène Monument with 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. Photo © Sylvie Leonard, les Abattoirs

Press Release

At Les Abattoirs Tomás Saraceno presented Museo Aero Solar as his contribution to a possible Monument for the Anthropocene, a proposed geologic chronological term for an epoch that begins when human activities have had a significant global impact on the Earth‘s ecosystems. Museo Aero Solar is a flying museum, a collective artwork initiated by Tomás Saraceno and conceived in the course of a dialogue and cooperation with the Isola Art Center in Milan. It is...
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