TOMÁS SARACENO’S
Chocolate nut cake
PHOTOGRAPHY: JOHN SHORT FOOD: PETA O’BRIEN WRITER: TF CHANArtist’s Palate
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‘Alchimie Platinum’
dessert plate,
£80, by L’Objet,
from Harrods,
harrods.comTomás Saraceno likes to say that he ‘lives in
and beyond the Planet Earth’. The Argentine
artist’s lofty ambitions are evident in
his Aerocene sculptures, which become
buoyant thanks to the heat of the sun.
Applying this technology, he launched the
world’s first solar-powered flight in 2015,
bringing mankind ever closer to the dream of
Icarus. More recently, Saraceno’s work has
taken on an interstellar dimension, using
images of faraway galaxies to challenge our
conceptions of space and time. He reminds us
that what we see in the night skies is a very
ancient image. ‘We, earthlings, are always
convicted to watch the past.’ Happily, the past
abounds with wonderful things – including
this chocolate nut cake recipe, passed on to
Saraceno by his grandmother.
Tomás Sacareno is at MAAT in Lisbon, 21 March
to 27 August, maat.pt, tomassaraceno.com.
For his recipe see Wallpaper.com ∏290 ∑