Space Travel
Mario Bellini’s glowing Stardust sofa in Moss: Dialogues Between Art & Design at Phillips De Pury.
Van Neistat dishes on what it was like working with Tom Sachs on Mars.
One man in particular has shaped how we represent the future. At once immensely familiar and perfectly unknown, painter and engineer Syd Mead is an unavoidable part of American culture.
Filmmaker Van Neistat has worked with artist Tom Sachs for over a decade, in the process producing viral YouTube videos and an HBO series, The Neistat Brothers, with his brother Casey.
Watch Tom Sachs’ videos and see how a system of constraints for something so small as sweeping the floor can take you to uncharted realms of creativity—even to the surface of Mars.
In 2007, American artist Tom Sachs used everyday materials to painstakingly build a 1:1 model of the Apollo lunar probe and stage a moon landing within the confines of the Los Angeles branch of Gagosian Gallery, complete with mission control monitors relaying footage of the astronauts in space suits. Sachs’ latest project takes his fascination with the challenges, ingenuity, and wonder of space travel even further.
