The artist Tomás Saraceno’s new show at the Shed includes a collection of seven spiderwebs displayed in glass frames. “I just put up the frame, invite the spider to come, they weave the web, and then they move out and the art work is ready,” Saraceno said.
The artist Tomás Saraceno recently spent an afternoon in Hudson Yards, at the Shed, searching for spiderwebs. “Look, look, do you see it? There’s one here!” he yelped, on his hands and knees, as he peered beneath a wooden pallet in the loading dock. “It’s an old one. It’s very small. Look!” Saraceno wore a blue sweater with light-blue running shoes and a KN95 mask; he was covered in dust, and his eyes glowed with excitement.
WE WOULD LIKE TO START BY THANKING YOU FOR RECOGNIZING OUR RIGHTS TO INHABIT AND EXHIBIT IN THIS SPACE AND FOR NOT LABElLING US “URBAN PESTS” AS MANY OTHERs DO. WE HOPE THAT AFTER THIS EXHIBITION ENDS, YOU WOULD CONSIDER ALLOWING OUR CONTINUING BUT THREATENED, UNLIMITED EXISTENCE . . . DO NOT BE AFRAID . . . SIGNED, SPIDER/WEBS
In his work, Saraceno focusses on spiders and sustainable hot-air balloons. One project, “Museo Aero Solar,” involves balloons made of reused plastic bags. Two years ago, a schoolteacher named Leticia Noemi Marqués broke thirty-two world records when she piloted another balloon, “Aerocene Pacha,” over Argentinean salt flats. It was heated entirely by air and sunlight.
Saraceno resumed his hunt. He found a sheet web near the elevators—“Look how it moves!”—and a cobweb hanging in a ventilation shaft. He went upstairs, into a machine room, and shouted, “We’re looking for our friends, the spiders and the webs!”“And you did not have any webs?”Saraceno was undeterred. He searched a crawl space behind some machinery; the engineer scoured a pipe-distribution area. “I think I’ve got one!” the engineer hollered.
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