Fivefold tunnel, 2000
Installation view: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, The Winter Palace, Vienna 2015 © Photo: Anders Sune Berg, © 2015 Olafur Eliasson
Collection
Stainless steel
Ca. 222 x 126 x 1055 cm
Fivefold tunnel is a freestanding arched passageway that connects two ceremonial rooms of the enfilade, reminiscent of a baroque arcade, or traillage. Composed of intersecting sets of parallel steel bars, the latticework structure, whose pattern is based on Ammann lines, displays fivefold symmetry. Five sets of parallel lines, spaced according to the golden ratio, cross each other at angles of 108 and 72 degrees, generating a complex aperiodic pattern. The use of fivefold symmetry in this work stems from the artist’s close collaboration with Icelandic mathematician and architect Einar Thorsteinn.
*1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark | Living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark and Berlin, Germany
Ca. 222 x 126 x 1055 cm
Fivefold tunnel is a freestanding arched passageway that connects two ceremonial rooms of the enfilade, reminiscent of a baroque arcade, or traillage. Composed of intersecting sets of parallel steel bars, the latticework structure, whose pattern is based on Ammann lines, displays fivefold symmetry. Five sets of parallel lines, spaced according to the golden ratio, cross each other at angles of 108 and 72 degrees, generating a complex aperiodic pattern. The use of fivefold symmetry in this work stems from the artist’s close collaboration with Icelandic mathematician and architect Einar Thorsteinn.
*1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark | Living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark and Berlin, Germany
