Tomás Saraceno’s installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture. His works are utopian and interactive. Inviting the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground. The artist creates gardens that hang in the air and allow visitors to float in space, fulfilling a dream shared by all humankind. Saraceno draws inspiration from soap bubbles and the incredible strength and flexibility of spider webs.

Born in Tucuman, Argentina, the interests of the artist are broad. Everything he does appears to develop from a certain degree of boundlessness, motivated by an interest in the changes taking place in the world in which we live. Each of his objects invites the viewer to consider alternative forms of knowledge, feelings and our interaction with others.

During his exhibition in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (curated by Britta Schmitz) the visitor can see, mount and experience about twenty of his balloon models. The exhibition is on until January 15, 2012.

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Hamburger Bahnhof
Tomas Saraceno