Social... Quasi Social... Solitary... Spiders... On Hybrid Cosmic Webs Tomás Saraceno
March 15—April 13, 2013

Social... Quasi Social... Solitary... Spiders... On Hybrid Cosmic Webs Tomás Saraceno

Exhibition view The illuminated, translucent cubes host unusual webs built by different species of spiders. The artistic experiment weaves architecture, biology, network analyses and social behavior into questions of sharing, communicating and building. Tomás Saraceno’s research and work with spider webs originates from his interest in astrophysics - each of these translucent boxes represents an entire universe to him. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Press Release

Esther Schipper is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tomás Saraceno at the gallery. One of Saraceno’s key interests is the scientific observation of environmental, biological and physical systems and their poetic correlation to human perception and ideas about the living environment. Patterns, which the artist discovers in phenomena ranging from macro structures of the outer space to micro bio-systems of nature, invite to imagine alternative ways of the organisation of life. In...
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