Olafur Eliasson
Seu planeta compartilhado, 2011
Seu planeta compartilhado, 2011
Installation view: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, Das Winterpalais des Prinz Eugen, Vienna, Austria, 2015
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, Das Winterpalais des Prinz Eugen, Vienna, Austria, 2015
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Olafur Eliasson, Seu planeta compartilhado, 2011
Stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mirrors, 195 x 325 x 200 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mirrors, 195 x 325 x 200 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Olafur Eliasson, Seu planeta compartilhado, 2011
Stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mirrors, 195 x 325 x 200 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mirrors, 195 x 325 x 200 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Installation view: Abundant Futures in Troubled Times. Works from the TBA21 Collection, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía C3A, Córdoba, Spain, 2022
Photo: Fernando Sendra | TBA21
Photo: Fernando Sendra | TBA21
Collection
Stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mirrors
195 x 289 x 149 cm
In Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), a metal frame supports an arrangement of four individually shaped and colored kaleidoscopes with triangular, hexagonal, rhombic, and square apertures. Positioned at eye level, the work invites viewers to move along the openings and gaze through the faceted lenses, colored in yellow, green, turquoise, and blue. The tapered ends of the four optical devices are oriented toward one vanishing point from where the image of a shared planet emerges in the shape of a polyhedral pattern. The work touches on the recurrent theme in Olafur Eliasson’s art: the interdependence of perception, movement, and space and the many ways they constitute one another. Well-versed in the history of the gaze and its complicity with structures of power, he creates viewing apparatuses that divert, complicate, and externalize the act of seeing, thereby detaching it from its primary role in registering reality. His instruments and viewing machines aim to recompose perception as the capacity of being-in-the-world with a heightened sense of emotion and embodied cognition, thereby rekindling an expanded sense of presence and attention. By mobilizing viewers and eliciting the experience of seeing differently, Eliasson hopes to reactivate a sense of enchantment with the planet and, with it, a collective political horizon.
CURRENT LOANS
Group show: Remedios
Venue: C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
Curator: Daniela Zyman
Exhibition 14 April 2023 - March 2024
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1967. Lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and Berlin, Germany.
195 x 289 x 149 cm
In Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), a metal frame supports an arrangement of four individually shaped and colored kaleidoscopes with triangular, hexagonal, rhombic, and square apertures. Positioned at eye level, the work invites viewers to move along the openings and gaze through the faceted lenses, colored in yellow, green, turquoise, and blue. The tapered ends of the four optical devices are oriented toward one vanishing point from where the image of a shared planet emerges in the shape of a polyhedral pattern. The work touches on the recurrent theme in Olafur Eliasson’s art: the interdependence of perception, movement, and space and the many ways they constitute one another. Well-versed in the history of the gaze and its complicity with structures of power, he creates viewing apparatuses that divert, complicate, and externalize the act of seeing, thereby detaching it from its primary role in registering reality. His instruments and viewing machines aim to recompose perception as the capacity of being-in-the-world with a heightened sense of emotion and embodied cognition, thereby rekindling an expanded sense of presence and attention. By mobilizing viewers and eliciting the experience of seeing differently, Eliasson hopes to reactivate a sense of enchantment with the planet and, with it, a collective political horizon.
CURRENT LOANS
Group show: Remedios
Venue: C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
Curator: Daniela Zyman
Exhibition 14 April 2023 - March 2024
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1967. Lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and Berlin, Germany.
Olafur Eliasson, BAROQUE BAROQUE. Exhibition featuring works from Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the Juan & Patricia Vergez collections at Winter Palace, Vienna 2015. Direct link here , exhibition catalog here. Article by Wallpaper* Magazine here
Eliasson, Olafur & Volz, Jochen. Your Body of Work. Curatorial Text, Critical Texts by Lisette Lagnado, Guilherme Wisnik and Interview with the artist, 2011. 17th International Contemporary Art Festival and Associação Cultural Videobrasil. Full material here
Luciana Chen, Myrna. Nacimiento Cuerpo, espacio y tiempo: (in) visibilidades en las obras de Kusama, Salat y Eliasson/ Body, space and time: (in) visibilities in the works of Kusama, Salat and Eliasson (ENG/ES). Essay, 2019. pp 147-151, here
Olafur Eliasson on light, art, and Little Sun, video, 2019
Light! On light in life and the life in light, Forlaget Tor.dk, 2015
Life In Space: Einar Thorsteinn – Fivefold Symmetry, video, Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015
Eliasson, Olafur & Volz, Jochen. Your Body of Work. Curatorial Text, Critical Texts by Lisette Lagnado, Guilherme Wisnik and Interview with the artist, 2011. 17th International Contemporary Art Festival and Associação Cultural Videobrasil. Full material here
Luciana Chen, Myrna. Nacimiento Cuerpo, espacio y tiempo: (in) visibilidades en las obras de Kusama, Salat y Eliasson/ Body, space and time: (in) visibilities in the works of Kusama, Salat and Eliasson (ENG/ES). Essay, 2019. pp 147-151, here
Olafur Eliasson on light, art, and Little Sun, video, 2019
Light! On light in life and the life in light, Forlaget Tor.dk, 2015
Life In Space: Einar Thorsteinn – Fivefold Symmetry, video, Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015