Tomás Saraceno
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Tomás Saraceno was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina in 1973. The artist has interests in contemporary, mixed-media, site-specific installations and sculptures. In his practice, he usually combines the ideas of linking the social sciences, life sciences, and art, a concept that is highly evident in his community projects, works on paper, public installations, and futuristic sculptures.
Saraceno earned both his BA in architecture and MFA from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. He has exhibited as a solo artist in Seoul, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Copenhagen, and New York, with multiple showings at the Architecture Biennales and Venice Biennale.
A massive installation by Tomás Saraceno titled In Orbit has to be one of the artist’s most notable and successful installations. At a height of more than 20 meters, Saraceno suspended a mesh construction within which audiences could move weightlessly on the net. The net construction, accessible on three levels, was designed to resemble a […]
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Inflation! is the name of a project that shows six large-scale inflatable sculptures in the Park at West Kowloon Cultural District. The large-scale inflatable sculptures by Cao Fei (China), Choi Jeong Hwa (South Korea), Jeremy Deller (UK), Jiakun Architects (China), Paul McCarthy (USA), Tam Wai Ping (Hong Kong), and Tomás Saraceno (Argentina) pose questions about
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