Baltimore Museum of Art
01.10.2017 – 24.02.2019

In Entangled Orbits, the East Lobby of Baltimore Museum of Art is transformed with clusters of iridescent-paneled modules held in place by strings reminiscent of a spider web. Appearing somewhat like bubbles, these spherical modules evoke Tomás Saraceno’s vision for Cloud cities, which look to naturally occurring forms for inspiration and might provide environments for future human habitation. Similarly, the intricate spider/web of ropes refers to a natural structure that encompasses the qualities of strength, beauty, and flexibility. Immersive installations by Saraceno in the BMA’s European Art galleries further demonstrate the artist’s interest in the structures of the natural world—clouds, bubbles, and spider web—that could model the architecture of the future. These arresting and imaginative installations include an elaborate spider web (built by several types of spiders) encased in a suspended vitrine and dramatically lit within an entirely darkened space, hovering abstract sculptures that evoke planetary systems and early 20th-century modernist designs, and iridescent inflatables suspended from above and filling an entire gallery.