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Tomás Saraceno to Create Bold Vision
for Aerial Urban Living—Cloud
City—as Work of Art atop Metropolitan Museum's Roof Garden
Artist Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City, a large constellation of 16 interconnected modules composed specifically for The Metropolitan
Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, will open to the public on May 15, 2012. Measuring 54 feet long by 29 feet wide by 28 feet high, this site-specific work, inspired by multiple phenomena and
structures (including clouds, bubbles, bacteria, foam, universes, and social and neural communication networks), showcases the artist’s bold and ambitious vision.
Habitat-like, incorporating transparent and
reflective materials, the work will also be accessible for visitors—in limited numbers, weather permitting, by timed-ticket entry—to experience its interior realms and exterior vistas via an internal route. Set against Central Park, Manhattan’s skyline, and the expanse of space above and beyond, the installation Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City—part of the artist’s series Cloud Cities/Air Port City—suggests a model for living, interaction, and social exchange.
This is be the 15th consecutive single-artist installation for the Museum’s Cantor Roof Garden. Cloud City is the artist’s first major
commission in the United States.
Born in Tucamán, Argentina, in 1973, Saraceno has exhibited internationally. His most recent solo exhibition, Cloud Cities, was on
view at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin through January 15 of this year. His work Galaxies forming like water droplets along a spider’s web filled the main hall of the central exhibition pavilion of the 2009 Venice Biennale.
A special feature about the installation, including full guidelines for access
and ticketing for the Cloud City structure, is posted on the museum’s website at www.metmuseum.org/saraceno.
for Aerial Urban Living—Cloud
City—as Work of Art atop Metropolitan Museum's Roof Garden
Artist Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City, a large constellation of 16 interconnected modules composed specifically for The Metropolitan
Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, will open to the public on May 15, 2012. Measuring 54 feet long by 29 feet wide by 28 feet high, this site-specific work, inspired by multiple phenomena and
structures (including clouds, bubbles, bacteria, foam, universes, and social and neural communication networks), showcases the artist’s bold and ambitious vision.
Habitat-like, incorporating transparent and
reflective materials, the work will also be accessible for visitors—in limited numbers, weather permitting, by timed-ticket entry—to experience its interior realms and exterior vistas via an internal route. Set against Central Park, Manhattan’s skyline, and the expanse of space above and beyond, the installation Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City—part of the artist’s series Cloud Cities/Air Port City—suggests a model for living, interaction, and social exchange.
This is be the 15th consecutive single-artist installation for the Museum’s Cantor Roof Garden. Cloud City is the artist’s first major
commission in the United States.
Born in Tucamán, Argentina, in 1973, Saraceno has exhibited internationally. His most recent solo exhibition, Cloud Cities, was on
view at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin through January 15 of this year. His work Galaxies forming like water droplets along a spider’s web filled the main hall of the central exhibition pavilion of the 2009 Venice Biennale.
A special feature about the installation, including full guidelines for access
and ticketing for the Cloud City structure, is posted on the museum’s website at www.metmuseum.org/saraceno.
Cloud City installation. Photograph © Tomás Saraceno
Cloud Cityinstallation. Photograph © Tomás Saraceno
Cloud City installation. Photograph © Tomás Saraceno