Tenuta dell'Ornellaia Ornellaia Vendemmia d'Artista Solare 2017

For this 2017 Ornellaia Artist Series Label the artist Tomas Saraceno invites us to reflect on the impact of our actions on the planet as he interprets the character “Solare” (radiant). For this twelfth edition of the project Vendemmia d’Artista he has created a work of art for the estate and designed a label that expresses the vintage character.

Special Labels

As with every edition, the artist Tomás Saraceno has created a collection of large formats: 100 Double Magnums (3L), 10 Imperials (6L), and a unique Salmanazar (9L). Tomás Saraceno has also designed the special label for the 0.750 format: a single bottle with artist’s label in each case of Ornellaia 2017. This is the central theme of this project where the interaction between man and the artwork generates an immediate connection with the entangled web of relations that extend across micro and macro scales, all the way to the sun. Through the act of touch, he invites us to poetically and collectively rethink the way we inhabit the world; this interdisciplinary artistic endeavour propels our common imaginary beyond its own individuality. The Salmanazar is an evolution of the concept. Reminiscent of an atomic structure, the glass spheres of PNEUMA 4.21×105 compose also magnificent cloud-like formations, of perhaps a floating city one whose size and shape is never fixed, and which displaces our conventional notions of boundaries and territories. The floating sculpture is reminiscent of forms, that as Saraceno imagines, might be able to float, filled only with sun warming, free from fossil fuels. The sculpture thereby takes inspiration from the reciprocal alliance drawn between the sun and living systems inhabited by humans and non-humans, in an invitation to a practice of care and renewed attention to the planet’s most important source of energy.