Friday, April 24, 2015

Basim Magdy

http://www.basimmagdy.com/
Our Spies Saw an Early Pollination Season on the Horizon, 2013, 
spray paint, gouache, acrylic, colored pencil and collage on paper. 47 x 64.5 cm.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Tomas Saraceno


14 Billions (Working Title) (2010) is an enormous model of the web of a black widow – a poisonous spider. The public are invited to walk around and through this installation, which consists of 8,000 black elastic bands stretching from floor to ceiling and held together with 23,000 individual knots.
Saraceno was initially curious about how scientists use the spider web as a metaphor to describe the universe’s origin and structure. To make the work, he collaborated for two years with arachnologists, strophysicists, architects and engineers. The project’s research material is also on show.
This installation is one of several of Saraceno’s works dealing with spider webs and their relation to architecture and cosmology – the web’s social and symbolic value is also elucidated.