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TOMÁS SARACENO TO COLLABORATE WITH ROLLS-ROYCE ART PROGRAMME
Tue Oct 16 10:33:00 CEST 2018 Press Release
Tomás Saraceno is the latest in a host of eminent artists to join the Rolls-Royce Art Programme. The relationship between Rolls-Royce and Saraceno will adopt a double-aspect approach, with the marque becoming benefactor in part for his forthcoming ‘On Air’ show, which runs at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, from 17th October, 2018 until 6th January, 2019.
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- Tomás Saraceno is the latest artist to join the Rolls-Royce Art Programme.
- The marque will act as a benefactor for Saraceno’s solo exhibition On Air, at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
- A new work, pertaining to the ‘spider vitrine series’ will be created for the Art Programme following the exhibition.
The new work will be exhibited at the Home of Rolls-Royce in
Goodwood, West Sussex, in early 2019.
Tomás Saraceno is the latest in a host of eminent artists to
join the Rolls-Royce Art Programme. The relationship between
Rolls-Royce and Saraceno will adopt a double-aspect approach, with the
marque becoming benefactor in part for his forthcoming ‘On
Air’ show, which runs at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, from
17th October, 2018 until 6th January, 2019. In
return, Saraceno will create a new work for the Rolls-Royce Art
Programme, furthering the existing ‘spider vitrine’ series of his
installation, ‘Particular Matter(s) Jam Session’, supported
by Rolls-Royce, at Palais de Tokyo. The installation will be exhibited
at the Home of Rolls-Royce in Goodwood, West Sussex, in February, 2019.
The Rolls-Royce Art Programme invites leading artists to develop
new works which push the boundaries of what is possible both
technically and conceptually. Artists are given the time, freedom and
resource to create a unique creative statement.
Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce Motor
Cars, commented, “The Rolls-Royce Art Programme adopts the form of
contemporary patronage, enabling artists to bring new work to
fruition. It gives us great pleasure to support Tomás Saraceno’s
‘Particular Matter(s) Jam Session’ installation at Palais
de Tokyo, this autumn. Furthermore, we look forward to welcoming his
new work, created for the marque, to the Home of Rolls-Royce, in
February next year.”
Saraceno has researched and experimented with spider web hybrids
and interspecies communication in his recent work, exploring how we
look at spiders, and how, by paying renewed attention to them, we
might discover new threads of connectivity within our environment. The
web serves as a canvas from which to illustrate the ever-changing
eco-system in the atmosphere around us. Accumulating transitory
particles, observing the effects of vibrations, in this case caused by
the amplification of the sound of the spiders spinning their webs, and
the impact of a human’s interaction with the surrounding air, all use
the web as a stage from which to play their part.
‘ON AIR’ is the artist’s largest project to date. The
exhibition is the fourth ‘Carte Blanche’ installation hosted by Palais
de Tokyo, where an artist is invited to take over the
13,000m2 museum in its entirety. Saraceno brings a
selection of his major works together with ambitious new productions
that will transform Palais de Tokyo into a unique sensory experience.
‘ON AIR’ reveals what resists our sight; it aims to make
tangible both physically and virtually the myriad of presences
floating in the air and the way they affect us. From particulate
matter to cosmic dust and from radio frequencies to sonic pollution,
his work will expose atmospheric entanglement on the smallest and
largest scales. The artwork supported by the Rolls-Royce Art
Programme, ‘Particular Matter(s) Jam Session,’ furthers the
links built by the artist between dust articles, spider webs and atmosphere.
Tomás Saraceno, artist, commented, “If we can feel sound, can we
also see it? Can we hear what can’t be seen? The idea behind the
exhibition is that of jamming, playing together in an ecosystem in
becoming, always contingent and evolving, across multiple rhythms and
trajectories… amplifying the unheard voices and turning down the
volume of those that are usually loudest, re-assembling as an ensemble
of universes. That’s what I intended to do with ‘Particular
Matter(s) Jam Session’, and I am very grateful to Rolls-Royce
for their support, which allowed us to develop new techniques for this
very special installation.”
Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Curator, Palais de Tokyo, goes on to
say, “With Tomás Saraceno, the air becomes the extended field of
sculpture. Particular Matter(s) Jam Session, the
realisation of which was made possible thanks to the support of
Rolls-Royce, is a work that plunges us into the beauty and complexity
of an invisible ballet, the one of the cosmic and terrestrial dust
that surrounds us. We are immersed in the permanently moving
choreography that plays out in the universe, between our presences,
this matter, our breaths, time, rhythms. ‘Particular Matter(s) Jam
Session’ shows us with great poetry how the world goes through us
as much as we go through it.’’