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Biosphere 2009

Accession No.
2014.286
Date Created
2009
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary International Art
Dimensions A
300cm (diam.)
Edition
ed. 3/3 (A.P.)
Media Category
Installation
Medium
Woven nylon rope, acrylic
Credit Line
Purchased 2014 with funds from Tim Fairfax AC through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation

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© Tomás Saraceno

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A view of a large bubble-like inflated structure installed in a bright gallery space; two visitors stand underneath looking up into it.
WATER

Tomás Saraceno

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ESSAY

Tomás Saraceno: Biosphere

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An installation view, with two women looking onto a shining, faceted metallic sculpture installed on a wall.
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A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Tomás Saraceno b.1973 / Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms 2022 / Dimensions and installation variable / Purchased 2022 with funds from the Neilson Foundation through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Tomás Saraceno / GOMA, March 2023 / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

‘Air’

Nov 2022 - Apr 2023

Feature image: Lara Favaretto’s Gummo IV 2012 in motion during ‘A World View’, GOMA, December 2016 / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘A World View’

May 2016 - Apr 2017

Olafur Eliasson’s Riverbed 2014, installed at GOMA for ‘Water’, December 2019 / Purchased 2021. The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Charitable Trust / Collection: The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Charitable Trust, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Riverbed, Olafur Eliasson / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA

‘Water’

Dec 2019 - Mar 2020

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untitled (giran) 2018

Artwork Bilas (ornamentation) from "Koromb (spirit house)" this artwork made of Kunda (chains): woven cane; tambuwan (ancestor mask decorations): canvas, synthetic polymer paint, cane, polystyrene balls and raffia, created in 2012-01-01

Bilas (ornamentation) from "Koromb (spirit house)" 2012

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