Nimbus 10
Saraceno’s floating sculptures, community projects and interactive installations propose and explore new, sustainable ways of understanding and inhabiting the environment
Tomás Saraceno
Buenos Aires, Argentina 1975
Lives and Works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Artist Photo: © Studio Tomás Saraceno
Artwork Photos: Courtesy of Esther Schipper, Berlin
Artwork Photos: Courtesy of Esther Schipper, Berlin
Tomás Saraceno’s works represent a body of ongoing research, informed by the worlds of art, architecture, natural sciences, astrophysics and engineering. Drawing on his training as an architect, Saraceno’s floating sculptures, community projects and interactive installations propose and explore new, sustainable ways of understanding and inhabiting the environment, compelling viewers to re-imagine the world and its possibilities.
In 2015, Saraceno achieved the world record for the first and longest certified fully-solar manned flight. This project was part of a larger body of work titled ‘Aerocene’, an interdisciplinary artistic endeavour that promotes ethical collaboration with the atmosphere and to seeks to redefine an international right to mobility. Saraceno is also the first person to have scanned, reconstructed and re-imagined spiders’ woven spatial habitats and possesses the only three-dimensional spiderweb collection in existence.
Nimbus 10