Tomás Saraceno Interview: The Art of Noticing

Join us - if you dare - as we follow the acclaimed Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno into his installations of intricate spider webs inhabited by solitary, social and semi-social spiders, bridging the architectures of each other’s webs. In the video, Saraceno talks about how spiders mirror human beings and help us understand ourselves and the way we live.
“Every day, I try to enter territories, or thoughts, or ways of working, which might challenge ourselves and might challenge how we see the world.” Observing a spider in its web for more than twenty minutes, Saraceno argues, can completely change your life and way of noticing things, revealing an unseen world. In connection to this, he feels that art and science - as well as other forms of knowledge - combined, can help us “form new alliances between disciplines and lose our comfort zone of operating and seeing and perceiving and being in the world. To try to find new ways to work and to be.”
Tomás Saraceno (b. 1973) is an Argentinian artist. Saraceno is particularly known for his large-scale, interactive installations and floating sculptures, as well as his interdisciplinary approach to art. With his practice, he explores new sustainable ways of inhabiting the environment. His work has been exhibited at prominent venues all over the world, including the 58th La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires. Saraceno’s work is also part of international collection such as Bauhaus Museum in Weimar, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and SFMoMA in San Francisco. In 2015, he launched the Aerocene Foundation - an open-source community project for artistic and scientific exploration of environmental issues. Relating to arachnology research, Saraceno is the first person to have scanned, reconstructed and re-imagined spiders’ woven spatial habitats. For more see: studiotomassar...
Tomás Saraceno was interviewed by Helle Fagralid at his studio in Berlin in November 2019.
Camera: Rasmus Quistgaard
Edited by Klaus Elmer
Produced by Helle Fagralid
Cover photo: Tomás Saraceno. 'Social... Quasi Social... Solitary... Spiders... On Hybrid Cosmic Webs', 2013. Installation view. Detail. Courtesy of the artist and Esther Schipper Gallery, Berlin
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2020
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[@pazpi7344]

I am totally in love with his work and his way of thincking. He is inspyring, I am glad he exists. Thank you for the interview!

[@maggikelly5887]

So beautiful.. outstanding .. Thomas you are amazing .. thank you for being such a generous heartfelt soul in sharing yr visions , yr deep inner thoughts , helping all who watch to really watch & care for all the sentient beings we don’t see .. may you be blessed & continue to share yr visions of life .. thank you 🙏🏻 🥰😍

[@joecastillo467]

I have been attracted by spider webs around the my home. Being an architect by background, I have been amazed and impressed how the spider's mind creative engineering works. Planning , executing and spinning a web is no different from an engineer or an architect's mind when he starts a project. A bridge (Suspension), a building, any 3-dimentional project requires imagination and some form of creative thinking. This appear to come naturally to spiders. I stumbled upon Tomas Saraceno's Works. I am just awed to see his works.

[@nancywalter7555]

Profound. The web of the spider, in a way looks like the internet as well. Also, what if we could map ourselves. It would look very similar. Maybe we see it, because the spider moves slowly. I loved this so much. Has he written books on these concepts?

[@thelouisianachannel]

Hi Nancy. Saraceno has written these books, if you would like to have a look: www.artbook.com/catalog--art--monographs--saraceno--tom-s1.html

[@MarkoStatues]

Absolute FUC&^%-ING Genius...What an unsettling and profound way to look at the living creatures that are currently destroying this planet !

[@ggonzalez2676]

Saraceno's installations are like spiderwebs for humans

[@sheenamalabar9858]

cool

[@cenkakyldz101]

This, Is Made Of Webs,Plastic,Metal. When A Spider Illustrated A Web, He Copied It. Also, Spiders are Important.

[@allertonoff4]

Hyper-interesting

[@amarlimboo2484]

Interesting ..! ❣️

[@1hayes1]

Architects manque make terrible art; actually it is some form of cultural production, not art as such. This work quickly becomes boring, as does the horrible mass of "contemporary art" made by urban geographers.

[@reefk8876]

He’s totally appropriating spider webs and shit like a Damien hirst of insect worlds