Miami Art Museum Installation of Large-Scale Work by Tomás Saraceno

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. Please visit miamiartmuseum.org for more information. 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 Video by Mark Diamond, Diamondimages.com Music by Mel Morley, MidiMel.com