BEAUTY: Sculpture--Tomás Saraceno

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan just debuted the newest piece by Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno. Called Cloud City, the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor rooftop installation, measuring fifty-four feet long by twenty-nine feet wide and twenty-eight feet high, consists of sixteen interconnected modules made of steel and randomly faced with mirror and glass. The met will allow fifteen visitors at a time to climb the structures invisible staircases and enter the interior of the piece. The combination of glass and mirror along with the height reportedly makes for a disorienting experience.

Saraceno says,“Upside down, Central Park is a flying garden embedded in a cumulus cloud, mirrored buildings and skies appear under your feet, gravity seems to reorient itself, and people are multiplied in patchworks of cloudscape, forming unexpected interconnected networks...Cloud City is an invitation to perceive simultaneously a multiplicity of realities, making overlapping and multireflective connections between things, affecting and challenging our perceptions. Cloud City is a vehicle for our imagination, ready to transport us beyond social, political, and geographical states of mind.”

The piece will be on the roof of the Met until November 4, 2012.

Photo: inhabitat

Photo: inhabitat

Photo: inhabitat

Photo: inhabitat

Photo: inhabitat

http://www.tomassaraceno.com/
http://www.metmuseum.org/saraceno
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/photos-tomas-saracenos