On The Roof: Cloud City by Tomás Saraceno
Artist Tomás Saraceno has created a constellation of large, interconnected modules constructed with transparent and reflective materials on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Visitors may enter and walk through the cluster of habitat-like, modular structures.
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Artist: Tomás Saraceno
Photography © Tomás Saraceno
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Dan on 02 Aug 2012 at 12:37 am #
Amazing piece, but the forms are straight out of “Structure in Nature Is a Strategy for Design” by Peter Pearce. ISBN 13: 9780262660457
First published 32 years ago!
Pearce was way ahead of his time, or did his mind induce/spawn parts of the future we now live in?
Gekko on 02 Aug 2012 at 2:51 am #
It looks like a primitive space station, I like the fact that people can enter and climb into the modules.
david alptekin on 03 Aug 2012 at 8:21 am #
I don’t want to be too critical as I have not visited the sculpture but, at first glance, it looks like much ado about not much. Similar shapes can be seen on a lot of fairs/burger king/thrill rides/you name it places. If it is playing on the childness-ness of adults then why the “serious” materials like metal? If it is playing on shapes of future habitat/environment then I have seen those shapes before.