Tomás Sarraceno at the Moderno... How to capture the Universe in a spider web (Part I)
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10/04/17 - An extreme installation, dust and spiders. With all this, Tomás Sarraceno creates beauty. And it can be visited at the Museo de Arte Moderno.
For this project, the Tucuman-born artist mixed astrophysics and arachnology with his own aesthetic view. Each science field contributed with its knowledge to give shape to an artwork that plays with perception. As Raúl Lozza, who in the 50s studied the expansion of the Universe and came up with Perceptism and his geometrical works, today Sarraceno blends once again science and art. But in this case, he speaks of parallel universes and their many connections.
The Museum displays two installations. One of them (on the second floor) was build with the hard work of 7000 Parawixia bistriata spiders which, during six months (between October 2016 and January 2017), created the most amazing and beautiful (?) spider webs.
Instrumento Musical Cuasi-Social IC 342, by Tomás Sarraceno (2017)
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
Arachnids are blind and deaf but can catch an air breeze and, with it, create an aerial path. Sarraceno's team fed the spiders with crickets every night and created the fake air currents to stimulate them to create their random shapes. The Parawixia bistriata spiders were chosen because they tend to create enormous webs and, at the Museum, they were only given a few tensor threads forming the perimeter of a gigantic cube. Those tensors helped the spiders create three-dimensional webs. The installation is ephemeral and based in experimentation, but for visitors in general is a one-of-a-kind show with a clear poetical meaning.
The spiders can no longer be seen in the room: their life-cycle has ended. Only their beautiful webs remain. What will happen to them when the exhibition is over?
(To be continued..)
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