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settembre 30, 2019 - Museo Thyssen

'Más-que-humanas / More-than-humans': Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster - Tomás Saraceno


TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary continues its exhibition programme at the #museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in #madrid with a spectacular offering this autumn bringing together two of the most compelling artists from its collection in a rare joint show entitled “More- than-humans” opening on 25 September 2019. This exhibition of seminal works by leading international artists #dominiquegonzalezfoerster and #tomassaraceno focusses on otherworldly intelligences that surpass human understanding. The exhibition curated by Stefanie Hessler invites viewers to explore works that ask questions about artificial intelligence, the collective minds of animals, and the power and attraction of the unknown.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s holographic work OPERA (QM.15) (2016), features the artist herself appearing in the guise of the legendary opera singer Maria Callas. Dressed in the singer’s signature red dress and dramatic makeup, she performs by lip-syncing to arias from Cherubini’s Medea, Verdi’s La Traviata and Ponchielli’s La Gioconda bringing to life this extraordinary persona that was Callas. The haunting figure is projected in a dark space and seems lifelike at first, as if it were a ghostly apparition of Callas herself. The work forms part of a larger body of work by Gonzalez-Foerster in which she appears as a range of fictional or historic figures from Callas to Marilyn Monroe and Sarah Bernhardt, all legends of our recent past whose passionate lives and untimely deaths were a source of much public attention and scrutiny. Gonzalez-Foerster draws on these personalities as a great source for her work, and transforms herself personally into their tragedy and mystery. The work draws from the history of photography, early cinema and an interest in the uncanny, and, in the words of the artist, is not so much a performance as it is “a kind of séance.”

Tomás Saraceno is best known for his large-scale, interactive installations and floating sculptures, and for his interdisciplinary approach to art. His work often aims to explore solutions to current world problems, such as new modes of transportation through air without the need of fossil fuels. have developed a body of work inspired by the complex structures of spider websresearch. In the works in the exhibition, the artist studies the process and construction of these

Over the last decade, Saraceno and his studio that have expanded the horizons of scientific webs and displays them as originals, blown up to human scale, or as musical instruments whose amplified sounds make their elaborate structures vibrate and audible to human hearing. For Saraceno, spider webs provide a wealth of data around forms of sociality, construction, and communication that could prove essential for imagining new ways for humans to inhabit the world. He has worked with researchers at MIT to develop a scanning technology which uses tomographic methods to create detailed, three-dimensional scans of the webs produced by spiders at his studio. The scans enable new analyses to be undertaken which reveal how various strands of spider silk physically interact and attach themselves to one another.

“More-Than-Humans”
#dominiquegonzalezfoerster, Tomás Saraceno
Works from the collection of TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Curator: Stefanie Hessler
Exhibition architecture: Olga Subirós
Exhibition dates: 25 September – 1 December 2019

Media information:

www2.museothyssen.org/microsites/prensa/2019/masquehumanas/index.html

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza:

prensa@museothyssen.org (+34)913 600 236 (direct)

(+34)914 203 944 (switchboard)

a four-year agreement between TBA21 and the #museo Nacional

Thyssen-Bornemisza to present a series of contemporary exhibitions at the museum. It will be accompanied by a wide-ranging public programme aimed at attracting new audiences including a public conference with the artists on 24 September 2019 and a workshop by the Saraceno Studio focusing on arachnophobia and arachnophilia. The exhibitions are presented in the Moneo Temporary Exhibition Hall on the level -1 and in the Room 45 of the Permanent Collection on the ground floor of the museum and an educational programme structured by the Educathyssen department as well as activities and conferences using TBA21 expertise will be programmed to coincide with the exhibition.

Media Enquiries:

TBA21 Press Office:

media@tba21.org http://press.tba21.org/

International:

Erica Bolton, Bolton & Quinn Tel: +44 (0)7711 698 186 Email: erica@boltonquinn.com

Notes to Editors

TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary is a leading international art foundation, founded in Vienna in 2002 by the philanthropist and collector Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza representing the fourth generation of the Thyssen-Bornemisza family’s commitment to the arts. TBA21 is distinct from other art foundations in its promotion of art as a powerful agent for change. It encourages artistic practices that are informed by social and environmental concerns – practices that change the terms of engagement between art and society. It seeks to forge new, productive relationships between artistic research and the creative work of the sciences and the humanities and aims to investigate pressing issues of today. Since 2002, it has acquired a formidable collection of more than 700 artworks by some 200 artists from around the globe.

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