Tomás Saraceno, ''Aria'

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Hall 2Black masking made of 99. black COS - Oscurante molton and 99. black BCI - Cinecittà tulle.Sounding the Air, 2020It is an aeolian instrument, a musical instrument that is “played” with the wind. Its sound is produced by five threads of spider silk that drift and resonate with the air. Real‐time video captures the gestures of these “strings”, translating them into sonic frequencies and patterns.The work thus constitutes a collective creation improvised by an ensemble of forces and bodies: the radiant heat of human bodies, or the flurries and tremors created by the flux and breath of participants, but also the endless intraactions of different aerial elements, dust, silk, heat, wind, spiders and electrostatic forces.

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Hall 3Black masking made of 99. black COS - Oscurante molton and 99. black BCI - Cinecittà tulle.Webs of At‐tent(s)ion, 2020It is made up of a myriad of hybrid spider's webs sculptures interwoven by different spider species, in which individual threads and sensory worlds combine to form a floating landscape.

Hall 3Black masking made of 99. black COS - Oscurante molton and 99. black BCI - Cinecittà tulle.Webs of At‐tent(s)ion, 2020Detail.

Hall 4Black masking made of 99. black COS - Oscurante molton and 99. black BCI - Cinecittà tulle.How to entangle the universe in a spider/web?, 2020The cosmic web is a vibrant superorganism – its filamentary networks of assembling dark matter provide the mesh on which the large‐scale structure of the Universe is composed.Tomás Saraceno invented, for the first time, an original technique for 3D scanning, digitizing and reconstructing spider/webs.The visual vibratory signals of the laser reveal the hidden architectural entanglements woven by the spider, while also imparting their own effects: with every nanometer that the laser moves, the viewer’s sight is transformed, as it becomes visible – with startling clarity – how all three‐dimensional space is made up of an infinity of planes.The Universe stands before us between dimensions.

Hall 4Black masking made of 99. black COS - Oscurante molton and 99. black BCI - Cinecittà tulle.How to entangle the universe in a spider/web?, 2020Another view of the work.

Hall 5Black masking made of 99. black COS - Oscurante molton and 99. black BCI - Cinecittà tulle.Passages of time, 2020The projection Passages of Time is an overlapping of the dust live‐streamed from Particular Matter(s) Jam Session, 2018 and a film that lasts 163,000 years.It is the length of time needed for the light emitted by the Large Magellanic Cloud to reach us.Located in the Mensa and Dorado constellations, this dwarf spiral galaxy can be seen at night in the southern celestial hemisphere.However, we see it with a delay of 163,000 years.

Hall 5Black masking made of 99. black COS - Oscurante molton and 99. black BCI - Cinecittà tulle.Passages of time, 2020Detail of a live spider that spontaneously became part of the work.It is a local species already present at Palazzo Strozzi.

Tomás Saraceno (San Miguel de Tucumán, 1973) est un artiste argentin contemporain qui crée des installations interactives.
Il s'agit souvent de structures tridimensionnelles complexes suspendues dans l'air, parmi lesquelles on connait particulièrement celles avec lesquelles il élabore et reconstruit sous une forme artistique l'habitat naturel des araignées.

Installation

Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi

Florence

22/2/2020 - 1/11/2020 - Palais Strozzi

Matériaux utilisés dans ce décor

BCI - Cinecittà

Tulle

COS - Oscurante

Tissus occultants

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