Saraceno designed and produced this volume in collaboration with book artist Chisato Tamabayashi, in London Studio Tomás Saraceno and the Arachnophilia community in Berlin and May Castleberry, editor of Contemporary Editions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, who organized this publication for MoMA’s Library Council. Īll sales benefit the Archives, Library, and Research Collections of The Museum of Modern Art. To purchase a copy please contact May Castleberry, editor, or Megan Govin, Department Manager, MoMA Archives, Library, and Research Collections, at. One hundred copies are reserved for the Museum and the members of the Library Council, forty go to the artist and the collaborators, and twenty-five copies are for sale to institutions and collectors. The book is printed in an edition of 165 signed copies. As the planet faces the mass extinction of spiders, insects, and other invertebrates, with enormous environmental consequences, Saraceno’s project encourages new threads of connectivity to move us from arachnophobia to arachnophilia. The book features five pop-up scenes including a spider attached by a filament to its web a spider and its web in a museum building, not far from a human spectator a constellation connected to web-like threads, as cosmic arachnid architecture an enchanted cobwebbed forest and a layered image of diving bell spiders, beings that spend most of their lives underwater. This volume is intended to draw attention to spiders, their webs, and our shared environment through the participatory and sculptural form of the pop-up book.
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This limited-edition publication appears in a series of artist’s books published by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York The atlas-sized book contains five artist-designed, hand-cut, hand-printed pop-up scenes creating a small theater of marvels.įrom Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia was designed and created by Tomás Saraceno in Berlin. The Argentine-born and Berlin-based artist, architect, and theorist Tomás Saraceno has designed an artist’s book focused on the environmental and perceptual qualities of spiders and their webs. Tomás Saraceno, From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia, 2022
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