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Fondation d'entreprise Hermès
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EX.JAP.CCT.12
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Catalogue for an exhibition held at Maison Hermes (Tokyo) from May 5 - August 31, 2012.
'Cloud Cities is part of a wider project steered and evolved by the artist through successive interventions in situ: a potential habitat beyond terrestrial frontiers, enabling mankind to overcome issues of
Using natural forms – spiders’ webs, soap bubbles, clouds – Tomás Saraceno (a trained architect) has developed a series of polyhedric modules which seek (in the artist’s words) to ‘defy today’s political, social, cultural and military constraints and attempt to inculcate new concepts of synergy in their place.’ The work offers a poetic perspective on the concept of a lighter, more transparent future, as part of a bold, ongoing examination of the issues shaping our contemporary world.'
(Abstract source: http://en.fondationdentreprisehermes.org/Know-how-and-creativity/Exhibitions-by-...
'Cloud Cities is part of a wider project steered and evolved by the artist through successive interventions in situ: a potential habitat beyond terrestrial frontiers, enabling mankind to overcome issues of
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over-population and environmental destruction. Cloud-cities are an architectural utopia visualised – for the time being – in the form of contemporary art installations.Using natural forms – spiders’ webs, soap bubbles, clouds – Tomás Saraceno (a trained architect) has developed a series of polyhedric modules which seek (in the artist’s words) to ‘defy today’s political, social, cultural and military constraints and attempt to inculcate new concepts of synergy in their place.’ The work offers a poetic perspective on the concept of a lighter, more transparent future, as part of a bold, ongoing examination of the issues shaping our contemporary world.'
(Abstract source: http://en.fondationdentreprisehermes.org/Know-how-and-creativity/Exhibitions-by-...
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34