Tomás Saraceno

Hybrid semi-social semi-social semi-social Cluster GC 4477

2017

Spidersilk, carbon fiber, glass, metal Built by: a quartet Cyrtophora citricola-two weeks, a solo Cyrtophora citricola-one week, a solo Cyrtophora citricola-one week, rotated 90 degrees

Sagaponack

Callisto

2019

Glass disk, carbon fiber, polyester rope, velvet rope and monofilament

Long Lake Estates

Tomás Saraceno (1973) is an Argentinian contemporary artist who “lives and works in and beyond the planet Earth” (https://studiotomassaraceno.org/about/).

He is best known for his large-scale, interactive installations and floating sculptures, and for his interdisciplinary approach to art.

His interest in spiders stems in part from a childhood period in Italy when he lived with his family in a centuries-old house whose attic was filled with spiders. “Were the spiders living in my house, or was I living in the spiders’ house?” he asked. In one exhibition, he summoned 500 spiders from around the building with specially calibrated tuning forks to become collaborators in his artwork.