Some pics from the last work I made for the exhibition:
Tomás Saraceno - Oceans of Air, Mona Museum (Tasmania), 2023
17 December 2022—24 July 2023
The Oceans of Air book is available now through Mona’s online shop!
Printed at
@grafiche_veneziane in Venice, on
@fedrigoni.paper Freelife Cento, a 100% recycled paper. Designed by yours truly
@enricobardin
I would like to thank
@studiotomassaraceno for the beautiful assignment 🍃and the amazing team who made this possible:
@sian_scott_clash @pikey1000 @darioj.lagana @avezzu_andrea
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A companion publication to accompany Tomás Saraceno’s exhibition Oceans of Air at Mona, devoted to Leaf, Leaves, Life, Lives, a new commission created especially for the exhibition.
Leaf, Leaves, Life, Lives was inspired by Saraceno’s first visits to lutruwita / Tasmania, where he was struck by the intersections between the island’s plant life and that of its Aboriginal and colonial histories, which influenced its final form in the exhibition—a continuation of his work with leaves and other foliage, such as when he picked and pressed poppies growing from poisoned earth around his Berlin studio, built on the site of a former factory famous for making photographic film and dye.
Both the artwork and the publication feature native and introduced specimens that have been gathered from cultural burning locations, places that have been burnt by bushfires and hazard-reduction efforts, and Mona's own grounds.
These are shown alongside the delicate, crinkle-cut leaves from lutruwita / Tasmania’s only native deciduous tree, Nothofagus gunnii (known as ‘the Fagus’ or the tanglefoot beech), resulting in a variegated patchwork of colour revealing describing the eternally-entangled relationships of humans, nonhumans and landscape.
Featuring essays from Pakana curator Zoe Rimmer, art historian Eva Diaz, Pakana cultural burning practitioner Andry Sculthorpe, local botanist Greg Jordan, and curator Emma Pike.
📷 3,6,7 courtesy of Studio Tomás Saraceno
