12/12/2023 0 Comments Instal the new Rising Mist![]() Courtesy the artist spider/webs Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/Los Angeles and Neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Tomás Saraceno, Webs of At-tent(s)-ion, 2020 Photo: Nicholas Knight. Displayed at The Shed in glass vitrines in completely dark rooms with bright lights illuminating each spider/web, the sculptures are intricate, visually stunning and underline the fragility of the spider ecosystem. Its community of spiders and caretakers, or diviners, create living, silken architecture that form spider web sculptures, which Saraceno refers to as “spider/web” to emphasize the webs as an extension of the spiders. The Arachnophilia project celebrates spiders and the possibilities of interspecies collaborations. ![]() Made from colourful, repurposed plastic bags, some of which contain drawings and messages, the sculptural work floats in the air, kept aloft with heat directly from the sun and without the use of fossil fuels. Included in the exhibition is Aerocene’s large-scale, ongoing installation Museo Aero Solar (2007-present). The show expands upon Saraceno’s community projects Aerocene, devoted to interdisciplinary pursuits of a post-fossil fuel life, and Arachnophilia, a research-driven initiative that engages in spider studies from the perspective of their webs. Encompassing three quarters of The Shed, Particular Matter(s) is Saraceno’s first major survey exhibition in the US. A new exhibition of works by artist and activist Tomás Saraceno invites viewers to rethink climate change and environmental justice by focusing on some of the nonhuman entities and elements that surround us, including spiders, their webs, air and the particles of matter we cannot see.
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