SOS - Save Our Sky
Five artworks made of glass and nanoclouds
Silica aerogel is a space technology nano material, consisting of 99,9% air and 0,1% glass. It is used by Nasa to collect stardust. Following the artistic research of Ioannis Michaloudis, Simone Crestani turned into glass sculptures this unique material, that looks like a phantom and it is made of nearly nothing.
Transparent and weightless, aerogel sculptures break down the limits of Euclidean geometry and open up the way of representative space of Poincaré and Picasso. They become a bridge between what is possible and what it is not, tangible and intangible, nano and giga.
Silica aerogel is lighter than air and more resistant than celestial spheres. If you touch it, it crumbles, but it acts as a bullet-proof and super insulator in interstellar capsules. It looks blue on black background and when light passes through it gets orange like the sunset.
The ethereal beauty of the sky is reflected in the glass and gives us the illusion of having it at hand.
