Event Listing - Museums
Sun Nov 18, 2007 - Sun Feb 17

Tomás Saraceno: Microscale, Macroscale, and Beyond: Large-Scale Implications of Small-Scale Experiments

MATRIX 224


Website
$5 - $8

Location
Date and Time
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 map
cross street: between Bowditch and College
district: Berkeley

Sun Nov 18, 2007 (W - Su 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Th 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.)
Mon Nov 19, 2007 (W - Su 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Th 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.)
Tue Nov 20, 2007 (W - Su 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Th 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.)
Wed Nov 21, 2007 (W - Su 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Th 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.)
Thu Nov 22, 2007 (W - Su 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Th 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.)

Description
This fall, BAM/PFA presents the first major exhibition in the United States of artist and visionary architect, Tomás Saraceno. Over many years, Saraceno has developed a body of work that relies on research into engineering, physics, chemistry, aeronautics, and architecture to experiment and propose new possibilities for how we live in relation to one another.

Saraceno's vision for the future is articulated through Air-Port-City—a conceptual architectural proposal that envisages networks of habitable structures that float in the air. The freedom of their airborne location allows these sections of living space, and related spaces for leisure and work, to be organized within a modular cellular framework. As they join together like clouds, creating aerial cities in constant physical transformation, Saraceno sees these structures as capable of embodying more elastic and dynamic rules related to political, geographical, and cultural borders.

For BAM/PFA, Saraceno has created a site-specific commission from his Flying Garden series: a series of giant, transparent forms tethered in the museum's atrium, draped with Tillandsias that derive their nutrients from the air. The exhibition also includes a selection of other work by Saraceno that explores material innovation and formal inspiration, poetically demonstrating properties of suspension and form-finding related to the feasibility of his utopian ideas.

On Sunday, November 18, at 3:30 p.m., Saraceno will give an artist's talk in the galleries, followed by a reception.