L’arte anticipa il futuro: una nuova serie video racconta gli artisti visionari. Si comincia con Tomás Saraceno
Artribune launches a new 14-episode video series titled "L’arte anticipa il futuro" (Art Anticipates the Future), produced by School of Vision in collaboration with ENI and ROAD. The series explores how contemporary international artists are foreseeing future developments in mobility, energy, cities, and sustainability. The first episode features Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno (born 1973), whose work spans art, architecture, ecology, science, and cosmology. Saraceno's long-running project Aerocene uses aerosol sculptures, experimental flights, and collective practices to imagine a new relationship between movement, energy, and the atmosphere, proposing mobility based on lightness, solar energy, and collaboration with air currents.
This series matters because it positions artists as crucial interpreters of "weak signals"—fragmented traces of emerging trends that statistical analysis cannot yet capture. By framing artistic vision as a form of future intelligence, the project bridges contemporary art with business and scientific innovation, suggesting that artists can serve as compasses for those designing tomorrow's world. Saraceno's collaboration with scientists from MIT and NASA further underscores the practical relevance of such visionary art in addressing climate crisis and energy transition challenges.