Tomás Saraceno Museo Aero Solar video here
Artist Tomás Saraceno's works often defy optical logic: they seem to hover or hang impossibly in the air, sometimes creating a space for people to walk in, other times floating above them in a gallery or museum. Saraceno is a collaborator, working with scientists, the local community and other participants to enact his mindbending installations.
This summer, one of his works hovered over a Mississauga site, daily, for 10 days during the The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea (written about by our senior writer Leah Collins a few days ago). Called Museo Aero Solar, the work was made from plastic bags, collected at various sites in the city and laboriously taped together by community members with instructions provided by the artist, before the show opened. The piece, as curator Christine Shaw points out in this video by filmmakers Istoica, provokes "thinking about plastic pollution, something that we absolutely have to address worldwide." It might make you think of magic, too — or the American Beauty-esque mystery of a windswept plastic bag. Museo Aero Solar has already drifted away from Mississauga, but if you happen to be in Paris, France before January 6, 2019, you can catch Carte Blanche to Tomás Saraceno while it's taking over the Palais de Tokyo with the biggest spiderweb you've likely ever seen.
love love love this work. I love that so many people worked together and created big project. Also I think it's very nice to use trash? to create artwork. Mr. Edgar might love this artwork lol
ReplyDeleteIt's thrilling to see so many people cheer each other after they finish the work.
People worked together in more than one way to produce this... because these companies produced bags for humans to carry their purchases. Then after this initial use they were gathered and combined for this work.
DeleteI really enjoyed seeing this piece fully blown up. It really makes you think about all of the plastic waste we create and how it negatively affects the planet. The use of plastic to create something that large of a scale demonstrates how much we pollute the planet. I liked seeing how they were able to create something really beautiful and mesmerizing out of found materials that are considered trash.
ReplyDeleteDylan you might like this video short narrated by director Werner Herzog about a plastic bag: https://www.openculture.com/2015/08/werner-herzog-narrates-the-existential-emotional-journey-of-a-plastic-bag.html
DeleteThis reminded me a bit of the wanderlust project since they gathered plastic from the various places the walked to. What I found particularly interesting about this piece was how the artist had people from the community come together to form the sculpture. This process of making the sculpture addresses how plastic pollution is a community issue that everyone must come together to help fix. The size of the piece is intimidating and demanding, capturing how big and prevalent the issue is.
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This piece is unitive and community driven. I enjoy the recycling mindset of using all the plastic pollution and reusing/altering it. This piece really does defy gravity and it’s design and functionality is impressive.
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ReplyDeleteI remember hearing about this piece, I believe it was a different class but I remember being astounded by not only the form it took but the foundation of reusing waste to not only create art but to make a statement and visually showcase the issue of waste, plastic and touch on the nature of consumerism.
ReplyDeleteWe are inviting Saraceno to speak next year at UF. We will see if he accepts our invite.
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