Many suns and worlds is Tomás Saraceno’s first solo exhibition in Belgium. Designed especially for the project space of the Vanhaerents Art Collection, this exhibition features a new site-specific installation by the artist, as a part of his ambitious Cloud Cities project.

Tomás Saraceno’s most recent installations are experimental by nature: they critically deploy insights from new technological developments and set forth the artist’s innovative thinking about various social, political and economic themes, such as urbanism, mobility and ecology. Saraceno’s artistic projects and ideas share a distinct relationship with the works of ground-breaking architects from the fifties and sixties. An unbridled utopian vision aligns his work with that of Richard Buckminster Fuller.

The Cloud Cities’ series presents Tomás Saraceno’s futuristic vision in the form of a superstructure of flying metropolises. These airborne units propose conceptual solutions to problems of overpopulation and pollution, and they draw attention to present issues that endanger our current social and ecological condition. Like clouds, the floating cells are constantly changing their shape and structure, suggesting alternative living environments and allow us to cast our imagination beyond territorial constraints.