Until the 15th of January at the Contemporary Art Museum at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, there’s the exhibition ‘Cloud Cities’ by the Frankfurt-based Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno. The exhibition commissioned by Britta Schmitz with the help of Katharina Schlütler, is produced by the Freunde National Galerie, sponsored by Dornbracht Installation 2011 and by the donation of works of the collection of the National Gallery in London.

The work of Saraceno is a spectacular aerial installation, where thousands of transparent bubbles flote with the breeze. An astonishing mobile architecture, an oneiric game with shapes, textures, and the illusion of observing in an inverted way. Saraceno installs the illusion of aerial gardens, men who flote on pristine colour bubbles and objects suspended in the air.

The installation ‘Cloud Cities’ expresses the human dream of being suspended in mid air and floating softly and the view of not material limits. These are 24 futuristic works that as an ensemble are an aerial city and they transform into a single installation.

Tomás Saraceno was born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973. He’s an architect from the University of Buenos Aires and an artist by choice. His dream of installing a collective cloud on the net, taking new paradigms which move humanity through social networks, is one of his most ambitious projects, because it goes further than his creation, making of these great floating spheres a referent of what society is today.

Although he denies his role as an architect, in his work he denotes a different type of architecture, ludic, full of dreams, where science, geometry and even physics play a role in its creation. It’s hard to typecast, maybe it just has to be seen and enjoy its transparent and floating constructions to have the pleasure of appreciating the creation and its beauty.

In them he unfolds a single concept, freedom, that human dream which has moved thousands of men and efforts to reach it, and which still avoids us sometimes. He believes that the artist’s place is nature, and that’s why he builds spider webs, floating gardens and floating museums with objects or items which represent the whole world in its spheres.

He’s a kinetic and luminous sculptor who participated as the founder of the Madí movement. He explains his work by pointing out that it’s not an attempt to beat the laws of nature, like the force of gravity, but of creating the sustainable energy which bases itself in science, and for that he’s worked with NASA scientists who helped him overcome his limits, just like the Argentine-Hungarian artist Kosice, a forerunner of kinetic art, did in a manifest in the early 70s.

Saraceno’s work isn’t just beautiful but it also shows us a dimension of kinetic art which connects dreams with science.

For more information: http://www.smb.museum/smb/kalender/details.php?objID=29989

Nancy Guzman

A great chance to make the most of the autumn days and rent apartments in Berlin to enjoy this extraordinary exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, the old station remodeled as a museum.

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Translated by: aleixgwilliam
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