INSTALLATION ART

STEVE McQUEEN
Giardini at Venice Biennale 2009


TOMAS SARACENO
Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spiders Web


Miami Art Museum's installation team assembles "Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spiders Web" by Tomás Saraceno. The two-week installation process concluded on February 28, 2010, when Miami Art Museum opened "BETWEEN HERE AND THERE: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection," the museum's first, long-term installation of the Permanent Collection. This remarkable artwork is the initial offering in the new Anchor Gallery, a space dedicated to regularly changing presentations of large-scale works from the collection. In this piece, Saraceno takes spiders webs as a starting point, investigating how these intricate meshes gain immense strength, despite their lightness and thinness, by means of their inherent structural properties. "Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spiders Web" can be seen at Miami Art Museum during the first presentation of BETWEEN HERE AND THERE, and again at the new Miami Art Museum at Museum Park, scheduled to open in 2013.


Tomás Saraceno
Born Tucumán, Argentina 1973. Lives Frankfurt, Germany.
"Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spiders Web", 2008
Elastic rope
Collection Miami Art Museum, museum purchase with funds from the MAM Collectors Council

Bruce Nauman
Installation - Raw Material
Tate Modern

American artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) is regarded as one of the most influential artists working today. His pioneering explorations of sculpture, video, performance and environments have influenced artists internationally since the 1970s. Yet it is ideas, rather than any medium, that governs the artist's work.

Nauman studied mathematics and physics as an undergraduate: 'I didn't become a mathematician, but I think there was a certain thinking process which was very similar and which carried over into art. This investigative activity is necessary.' Frustrated by the human condition, Nauman approaches art making as if creating an ongoing series of experiments in which all the diverse areas of human activity – including written and spoken language, and physical behaviour – are tested.

http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/nauman/


Installation - Raw Material
Tate Modernhttp://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/nauman/