"Iridescent Planet"
Executed in 2007. Radiant foil, latex balloon, pump with pressure regulator, approximate diameter 115 cm. Edition of 3 +1 AP.
Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen.
Christian Larsen, Stockholm.
Private Collection, Stockholm.
Tomás Saraceno is the argentinan archtiect who became the contemporary artist, approaching art through many different disciplines; such as architecture, natural sicences, astrophysics and engineering.
Saraceno has after his architeture studies also attended Städeschule in Frankfurt as well as the International Space Studies Program at NASA Center Ames (Silicon Valley, California). He has exhibited at the 53rd Venice Biennale, and at the Sao Paulo Biennale. He has recieved the prestigious Calder Prize and has had exhibitions world wide, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York, Grand Palais in Paris and at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Right now he has onoing solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (MAAT), Lisbon and at the Fosun Foundation, Shanghai.