For his sculptures well-known Argentinian Tomás Saraceno brings his new Installation “Aerocene” in the St. Charles Church in Vienna to Float.
The two part reflective balls, ten and seven metres in diameter, will be on display for a year in the 300 year-old Baroque Church. In view of the dimensions of the Church – she has to crack a rather small reason, but a 70-Meter-high dome, it was important to find an artist, the architectural think, said curator Moritz Stipsicz on Tuesday.
Art project “Aerocene” in the St. Charles Church in Vienna
The 45-year-old Argentinian Tomás Saraceno has launched the interdisciplinary project “Aerocene” in 2015. The is not a lot of balls, filled with pure air, thanks to the drive by the sun and the air great distances. You should also be a Vision not only for environmental friendly transportation, but also for the possible colonization of the skies.
Artist Tomás Saraceno
In the case of the Vienna Karlskirche as a Baroque total work of art, with 200,000 visitors a year, a tourist attraction that will create the impression that the “views could offer up solutions to earthly human or man-made problems,” it said.
The Installation is part of 2018 started program, in which artists are to deal with the Church. “This project reminds us of the long Tradition of the Catholic Church as a major originator of contemporary art”, the Initiative supporting the Association.
For stunning power structures Tomás Saraceno is known
Installation artist Tomás Saraceno designs alternative living and housing models for the future. The works of a born Argentine break with the conventional notions of time and space.
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Networked art by Tomás Saraceno in Paris
He designs utopias. For Tomás Saraceno is working at the interface of art, architecture and science. His Work is three dimensional and large format are often. They look like cobwebs or giant soap bubbles. Often they float in the air or are clamped in networks.
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