20. NOVEMBER 2008

Meeting with Klaus Bollinger, Nikolaus Hirsch and Johan Bettum, SAC-alumnus Tomas Saraceno will discuss aspecst of his work with respect to issues in art and architecture.

Tomas Saraceno was trained as an architect in Argentina before commencing his post-graduate training in art and architecturein Argentina, Germany and Italy. His studies in Germany were in SAC from 2001 to 2003. Already before leaving SAC, Saraceno had begun exhibiting his work, and upon graduation he soon established a very succesful career as an artist. He has had numerous prestigious solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions all over the world.

Saraceno's is at once visionary and poetic. It makes reference to art and architecture from the 1960s and 70s in how it invokes utopian ideas of inhabiting space, and yet it is curiously contemporary in an age that faces over-population of crowded cities and ecological threats to the human habitat.

Strung out between past and future, spatial typologies and poetic ideas, the work is potent in how may present an interface between art and architecture and how the notion of the pavilion can be thought with reference to specific installations.

Tomas Saraceno meets with the engineer Klaus Bollinger, of Bollinger and Grohmann, who has had a long standing relationship to Saraceno. The architects, Nikolaus Hirsch and Johan Bettum, the latter also a teacher of Saraceno in SAC, represent Städelschule.