Date: Every Tuesday in July and August
Location: Torre Glòries - Mirador torre Glòries
Every Tuesday in July and August, you can go inside the sculpture called “Cloud Cities Barcelona” for free with a regular ticket. Re-imagine the city with Tomás Saraceno. Suspended at the top of Torre Glòries is Cloud Cities Barcelona, an interactive artwork by artist Tomás Saraceno that absolutely transforms the observation deck. Participants are invited to move along different paths through 113 cloud spaces, occupying an area of 130 m³. The interactive sculpture invites us to look inwards and outwards, to re-think what an observatory in the 21st century could be, and to imagine the multiplicity of worlds in the changing shapes of passing clouds.
A web of 6 kilometers of tensioned cables connected by 5000 nodes challenges the verticality of the observatory’s distant gaze through alternative geometries of togetherness. Like droplets of water condensing along the strands of a three-dimensional spider’s web, the connections highlight the interdependence and interrelationship between all living beings that inhabit it, where the actions of one affect the whole community. Communal spaces nestled within the sculpture include a selection of books, available to read, share and engage in collective dialogues and reconsider the threads that bind networks of care.
Dare to experience Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud Cities Barcelona suspended at a height of over 130 meters in the dome of Torre Glòries. Experience an immersive artwork, an invitation to inhabit shared time while considering alternative constellations of the urban public sphere, speculative architectures and the environmental crisis, within an entangled web of life.
Tomás Saraceno, “When clouds appear like rocks and towers, the Earth’s refreshed with frequent showers.
If spiders break off and remove their webs, the weather will soon be wet.
Stable climates might be granted if souls remain open to webbed encounters.”
Info: https://www.miradortorreglories.com/en/the-experience/cloud-cities-barcelona/
Location: Torre Glòries - Mirador torre Glòries
Every Tuesday in July and August, you can go inside the sculpture called “Cloud Cities Barcelona” for free with a regular ticket. Re-imagine the city with Tomás Saraceno. Suspended at the top of Torre Glòries is Cloud Cities Barcelona, an interactive artwork by artist Tomás Saraceno that absolutely transforms the observation deck. Participants are invited to move along different paths through 113 cloud spaces, occupying an area of 130 m³. The interactive sculpture invites us to look inwards and outwards, to re-think what an observatory in the 21st century could be, and to imagine the multiplicity of worlds in the changing shapes of passing clouds.
A web of 6 kilometers of tensioned cables connected by 5000 nodes challenges the verticality of the observatory’s distant gaze through alternative geometries of togetherness. Like droplets of water condensing along the strands of a three-dimensional spider’s web, the connections highlight the interdependence and interrelationship between all living beings that inhabit it, where the actions of one affect the whole community. Communal spaces nestled within the sculpture include a selection of books, available to read, share and engage in collective dialogues and reconsider the threads that bind networks of care.
Dare to experience Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud Cities Barcelona suspended at a height of over 130 meters in the dome of Torre Glòries. Experience an immersive artwork, an invitation to inhabit shared time while considering alternative constellations of the urban public sphere, speculative architectures and the environmental crisis, within an entangled web of life.
Tomás Saraceno, “When clouds appear like rocks and towers, the Earth’s refreshed with frequent showers.
If spiders break off and remove their webs, the weather will soon be wet.
Stable climates might be granted if souls remain open to webbed encounters.”
Info: https://www.miradortorreglories.com/en/the-experience/cloud-cities-barcelona/