This installation was created specifically for the entrance hall of the Art Centre and it’s composed of six elements distributed at different heights. This work was commissioned by Hortensia Herrero in 2018 and was the first permanent installation created expressly for the museum, followed later by several more from other artists. In it, Saraceno displays his well-known coloured “clouds”, halfway between the clouds that inhabit our skies and the spiders’ webs deployed in nature. They are works of great poetic beauty that also contain a message of respect for the environment that permeates all his work.
His profound interest in spiders and their webs led him to create a whole department in his studio devoted to researching these animals and working with spiders’ webs as material for his art. As he explains: “I started to see the web as a molecule, then became interested in the work that goes into making it, and eventually expanded it further, as a study of galaxies, of cosmic dust, of intercommunication”.
