by Tomás Saraceno, HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy, until 3 February 2013
See more in our gallery: “The universal art of networking“
“I HAVE always been fascinated by the butterfly effect,” says Tomás Saraceno. “A butterfly’s movement here will make a storm somewhere else.”
An artist and architect trained in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saraceno sees the world as a vast interconnected network, a notion that pervades his work. His 2010 installation, 14 Billion, for example, is a collection of beautifully interlinked hand-knotted strands, designed so that disruption to any one thread affects the whole piece.…
