Solaris

Tomas Saraceno

Tomás Saraceno’s futuristic sculptures, public installations, works on paper, and community projects merge elements of art, architecture, science, and engineering; they reflect significant concern for social change and the environment. Saraceno is best known for his monochromatic, room-sized installations of transparent bubbles and sculptural polyhedrons suspended from taut webs of cables. These pieces glimmer and appear to float, inviting viewers to imagine new modes of living. Saraceno has also created a collection of three-dimensional spiderwebs and developed a fully solar-powered hot-air balloon. He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in his native Argentina before pursuing post-graduate degrees in art. He has since enjoyed solo exhibitions in New York, Copenhagen, Rome, Paris, Berlin, and Seoul, among other cities, and showed at the Venice Art and Architecture Biennales. Saraceno’s work belongs in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.