Tomás Saraceno
| Tomás Saraceno | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 (age 43–44) San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina |
| Residence | Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | Argentinian |
| Known for | Installation Art, Sculpture |
Tomás Saraceno (San Miguel de Tucumán, 1973) is a contemporary artist. He is best known for his large-scale, interactive installations and floating sculptures, and for his interdisciplinary approach to art. His work explores new, sustainable ways of sensing and inhabiting the environment, the result of research into the origins of the observable universe, arachnology and the potential future for airborne dwelling.
Saraceno launched the Aerocene in 2015; an open-source, community project for artistic and scientific exploration of environmental issues. Saraceno is the first person to have scanned, reconstructed and re-imagined spiders’ woven spatial habitats, and possesses the only three-dimensional spider web collection in existence.
Saraceno studied architecture at Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in Argentina from 1992 to 1999, after which he studied art and architecture in postgraduate work at Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de la Nación Ernesto de la Carcova and Städelschule. He was directed by Daniel Birnbaum (curator of the 53rd Venice Biennale) and studied under professors Thomas Bayrle and Ben van Berkel. In 2003-2004 Saraceno participated in the course „Progettazione e Produzione delle Arti Visive”, held by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Olafur Eliasson at Venice University (IUAV).
In 2009, he attended the International Space Studies Program at NASA Center Ames (Silicon Valley, California). In 2009, Saraceno exhibited work at the 53rd Venice Biennale , and won the Calder Prize. In 2012, he was the first residing artist at the Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA), resulting in a strong and ongoing collaboration. Saraceno’s installations have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of 2003 and 2009, as well as at the Sao Paulo Biennale of 2006, among others.
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