Drawing inspiration from clouds, bubbles, spider webs, and other natural structures, artist Tom獺s Saraceno creates visionary installations that capture the imagination and ask pointed
questions about the sociopolitical conditions in which we live, as well as our capacity to change them. With essays by curator Meredith Malone, architectural historian Igor Marjanovic, and
art historian Ines Katzenstein��s well as a conversation between the artist and physicist Denis Weaire��his thought-provoking catalogapproaches Saraceno's uniquely experimental,
cross-disciplinary, and collaborative practice from a variety of angles.
The work on display in Tom獺s Saraceno: Cloud-Specific includes pneumatic sculptures, modular environments, drawings, and a video, all conceived as part of an ongoing exploration into
an Air-Port-City / Cloud-City (2001��resent), a floating city in the sky fueled by solar energy. Documenting the related exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and more
broadly examining the artist's working process, this book is among the first to investigate Saraceno's work and its place at the intersection of art, architecture, engineering, and the
natural sciences in a globalized world.
