Video: In orbit. Aerial installation by Tomas Saraceno
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Creativity of the artist Tomas Saraceno - not for those who are afraid of heights! After all, the master not only places his large-scale on enough high altitude above ground level, it also draws in the audience there. Another such work installation In Orbit, was recently opened at the K21 Standhaus shopping center in Düsseldorf.
Thomas Saracino is haunted by the clouds and the very theme of heights! In his works, he explores the sky, while transferring it to the ground. Large-scale installations of Cloud Cities and In Orbit can be cited as examples of such creativity. The latter was opened the other day in Germany.
Installation In Orbit is a set of mirror and transparent spheres, which are placed under the glass dome of the K21 Standhaus shopping center in Düsseldorf at a height of over twenty meters. These objects are connected to each other, with balconies, walls and floors, by a whole labyrinth of stairs, passages and simply hanging surfaces. Thanks to these elements, anyone can go up to the In Orbit installation and spend some time there.
Thomas Saracino argue that daredevils who were not afraid to climb up will have a unique opportunity to look at the world from a different angle, from an orbit, albeit not a real one, but a symbolic one. Orbit, can also experience the sensation of flying and falling, which will give them the right to be called "astronauts from art."
At the same time, visitors should not be afraid of heights at all. Installation In Orbit is absolutely safe for people, because it was created so as to avoid the very possibility of injury and, even more so, falling from it to the floor of the shopping center. A complex insurance system excludes such a scenario.
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