Artist’s Talk | Tomás Saraceno
Tomás Saraceno
Photography by Dario J Laganà
Tomás Saraceno, Callisto 4.5, 2020, mirrored glass disk, carbon fibre, polyester rope, velvet rope, monofilament fishing line, and stainless steel, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the 2022 Latin American Experience Gala and Auction. © Tomás Saraceno
December 12, 2023
“At the Intersection of Art and Science Stands Tomás Saraceno.” —New York Times
Tomás Saraceno is renowned for seamlessly intertwining art with science, technology, and biology in order to rethink how humans interact with the environment and the cosmos. He creates intricate floating sculptures, community projects, and interactive installations that explore the possibility of a future flying metropolis.
The Argentinean artist shot onto the art scene in 2002 with his series of Cloud Cities. The iconic entangled webs offer a new way of perceiving the work as interconnected networks, not just with humans but with other living and non-living entities. His line of thought parallels and builds on key contemporary philosophies, going beyond a human-centric approach.
Plan Your Visit
- This program takes place in Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building, with seating available on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission is free. The Museum is closed on Tuesdays.
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About the Artist
Tomás Saraceno (born 1973 in Tucuman, Argentina), lives and works in Berlin. He has studied art and architecture in Buenos Aires, Frankfurt, and Venice, and he completed the International Space Studies Program at NASA. Saraceno’s residencies include Atelier Calder and the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology. He has presented a TED talk; published in Nature and PNAS; and lectured at Princeton, Columbia, and Centre Pompidou. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Fosun Foundation in Shanghai; Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; and Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.