Tomás Saraceno. Becoming Aerosolar

On June 21st the 21er Haus will open Tomás Saraceno’s first solo exhibition in Austria. For some time now, Saraceno has been concerned with speculative models of society that embrace a sustainable use of the environment. Through his works, Saraceno invites us to question our relationship with both the earth and the sun, and to rethink our ways of living and the respective circulations of energy.

For this purpose he combines art, architecture, and natural science theories and thus creates prototypes for habitable, flying cities. His vision, to harness the sun’s light for airborne dwellings, is presented through a large-scale installation and additional sculptures from the series “Becoming Aerosolar”. Visitors are furthermore invited to bring used plastic bags to the exhibition, where tools and instructions are available to construct flying, lighter-than-air sculptures and to explore Saraceno’s ideas.

Tomás Saraceno, born 1973 in Tucumán, Argentina, lives and works in Berlin. His works have been shown worldwide in over fifty solo shows and more than hundred group exhibitions, such as at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, K21 in Düsseldorf, and the biennales of Venice, São Paulo, Lyon and Moscow, amongst others.

DO IT TOGETHER
Collect plastic bags and design an aerial museum!

In advance of the exhibition a new version of the project Museo Aero Solar will be created. Join us in this extraordinary art project and bring your used and cleaned plastic bags (the thinner, the better) to our collection point at the 21er Haus!
From 10 June 2015 we invite you to our workshops, where we will be building a balloon from our collection of plastic bags. See our Newsletter for more information.

With these Instructions by the artist Tomás Saraceno you will be able to start your own plastic bag collection with friends, colleagues, and family and devise messages for an aerosolar, lighter-than-air sculpture. Join us in Becoming Aerosolar, send your work to the 21er Haus.