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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