Saratseno Thomas (Tomas Saraceno)

Saratseno Thomas (Tomas Saraceno)

Argentina artist. Thomas Saratseno is obsessed with the idea of creation of the soaring city on clouds which will be able freely to move on the sky. The artist persistently tries to materialize the utopian dreams. The architect by training, Thomas Saratseno is based not only on scientific premises, and and on use of the innovation materials. A child he considers each a part of the nature, and is sure that only at such approach, there will be an opportunity to change vital conditions to the best. Imagine communities of people who live highly above the ground and travel movable by clouds. The flying cities – a feasible utopia, in this style the artist works the last years. Long time Tomas was engaged in construction of the geodetic domes intended for technical and scientific research. Over time, it decided to use the knowledge more widely, and the academic experiments developed into creative. Among Saratseno's inspirers there are the Russian scientist, the pioneer of a raketoplavaniye, astronautics and science about the live Universe — Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky.

Education

1992-1999 degree: architect. National university Buenos Aires, Argentina

1999-2000 graduate student. The higher school of fine arts Buenos Aires, Argentina

2001-2003 the Higher school of art Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2003-2004 graduate student. Institute of architecture Venice, Italy

2009 International program of space researches of NASA California, USA

Personal exhibitions

2009 Thomas Saratseno: It is easier, than air, Minneapolis, the USA

2012 Cloud city, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA ON THE ROOF: CLOUD CITY

2012 Space foam, Milan, Italy ON SPACE TIME FOAM

2012 City cloud, Berlin, Germany Cloud Cities. All space of "The historical hall" of the former station is occupied by complex spherical structures in the form of volume webs and biomolecular connections. In the search of an alternative method of life on Earth Thomas Saratseno continues to develop the utopian ideas of the American architect and inventor Richard Bakminstera Fuller. Fuller consciously devoted all the life to the solution of two questions - whether long existence on Earth and by what method it is possible to reach it is possible for mankind? Throughout all life he was the main participant of own experiment - let officially ruling the world are not capable to improve mankind provision, in that case what the ordinary person like it is capable of? One of the utopian inventions of Fuller - a geodetic dome based on which Saratseno built "clouds" from polyethylene, elastic threads and other available materials.

2012 Cloud, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2012 14 billion (working name), Stockholm, Sweden

2013 Spiders, Berlin, Germany

2013-2015 In an orbit, Düsseldorf, Germany Installation of In Orbit represents a set mirror and transparent spheres, steel ropes and a grid. The area of a construction reaches 2.5 thousand square meters, 3 tons weigh (the biggest of spheres — 300 kg). Hangs on height of 25 meters — directly under a glass dome of the museum. In Orbit has several levels between which visitors can move on numerous transitions which are connected as among themselves, and to balconies of the museum. On development of such miracle, Thomas was inspired by the nature. It is the culmination of three years' cooperation with architects and arakhnologa (experts in spiders). Studying of construction methods arachnoid, allowed to make the beautiful esthetic and functional work Software to technical characteristics, it is the most majestic and complex work of the designer. As envisioned by the author, it is not the just multilevel mechanism of grids and spheres, it is model of the Universe which illustrates planetary bodies and gravity. Each person who is in a system becomes a molecule, the planet or a black hole. Having included imagination, in a three-dimensional web it is possible to consider neurons and branching tissues of a brain, structure of the galaxy and dark matter. The exhibit sets thinking on fear and awe, on life and death.

2014 Thomas Saratseno, Genoa, Italy

Participation in group exhibitions

2005 Amusement park. Fantastic art, Contemporary art center, Kodroypo, Italy Cloud Cities

2005 Dialectics of hope, the first Moscow Biennial of the modern art, Moscow, Russia

2006 How to live together, the Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil

2007 Still life Art, Ecology and policy of changes, Sharjah, United Emirates Arabs

2008 Green camouflage, Turin, Italy

2009 53 biennials, Italian Venice pavilion, Italy Galaxies Forming Along Filaments

2011 Divine comedy, Harvard higher school of design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

2013 Mobile M, museum of visual culture, Hong Kong Poetic Cosmos of the Breath

2014 Architectural reset, Berlin, Germany

2014 Attention Economy, Vienna, Austria