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Art: Why Tomás Saraceno is floating on air

Forget doomy "Anthropocene" ideas, if we're serious about saving Earth we need hope, says Tomás Saraceno, the artist whose tetrahedral balloons inspire researchers

10 October 2018

Spider-inspired art — Spider-inspired art
Argyroneta aquatica in the air bubble of the underwater web she built at Studio Tomás Saraceno, 2017. Courtesy the artist; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen; Pinksummer contemporary art, Genoa; Esther Schipper, Berlin; Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photography by Studio Tomás Saraceno, 2017

, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 17 October to 6 January

Albedo by Tomás Saraceno, , 6 to 9 December

THE Argentine-born artist Tomás Saraceno maintains a – if you can call a disused chemicals factory…

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