Cloud-Specific by Tomás Saraceno
Cloud-Specific is a monograph by Tomás Saraceno, edited by Jane E. Neidhardt, designed by cyan, and published by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in 2014. The book contains photos, diagrams, and articles.
Tomás Saraceno is a contemporary artist from Argentinia. Many of his works are in line with the concepts of “link” and “connection” that surround us. He has often used the sky and space as a place to reflect. Cloud-Specific was also an exhibition shown by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum from September 9, 2011 to January 9, 2012. In it, you can find polygonal metal structures that connect to each other and blend together. For the artist the sky is a place of spatial conditions.
The book cover takes up the idea of the sky as an infinite space with particular spatial conditions. The typeface takes shape on the first page in a particular way. Neue Helvetica Ultra Light is delicately set against a white background. This allows the cover to initiate a minimal representation of space and sky.
The stretched hyphen between Cloud and Specific can also be interpreted as a reference to the artist’s work and his way of linking things together.
The sky constitutes not only an imaginary realm beyond national and political borders, but also metaphorically an infinite space of unlimited freedom beyond the laws of gravity. Cloud Specific, published on the occasion of the exhibition at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, expands ongoing explorations of an Air-Port City, a project that employs advanced technologies such as bubblelike cells fueled by solar energy to propose new living structures.
Inside the book, headlines in Neue Helvetica Ultra Light are combined with text set in Times New Roman with non-ligning numerals. See more images on cyan’s portfolio website, including the middle part with a visual essay featuring collages and quotes from Peter Sloterdijk’s Sphären: Schäume, printed on lightweight paper.
