sábado, 22 de setembro de 2012

Saraceno... cidade nas núvens... MOMA



Artist Tomás Saraceno's Cloud City, a large constellation of 16 interconnected modules, has just opened to the public on the rooftop of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This site specific work — 16 metres long, 8 metres wide and 8 metres high — is inspired by multiple phenomena and structures such as clouds, bubbles, bacteria, foam, universes, and social and neural communication networks. Set against Central Park, Manhattan's skyline, and the expanse of space above and beyond, Cloud City suggests a model for living, interaction, and social exchange. 

Incorporating transparent and reflective materials, the installation can be visited through 4 November. Visitors may enter and walk through these habitat-like, modular structures grouped in a nonlinear configuration. "Upside down, Central Park is a flying garden embedded in a cumulus cloud, mirrored buildings and skies appear under your feet, gravity seems to reorient itself, and people are multiplied in patchworks of cloudscape, forming unexpected interconnected networks…" says Saraceno. "Cloud City is an invitation to perceive simultaneously a multiplicity of realities, making overlapping and multireflective connections between things, affecting and challenging our perceptions. Cloud City is a vehicle for our imagination, ready to transport us beyond social, political, and geographical states of mind."

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