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Olafur Elisson
Your uncertain shadow (colour), 2010

Installation view: Passages. Travels in Hyperspace. Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain, 2010
Photo: Reto Guntli
Installation view: Passages. Travels in Hyperspace. Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain, 2010
Photo: Reto Guntli
nstallation view: Innen Stadt Außen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe | Courtesy the artist
Installation view: Continuum_the perception zone, Tallin Art Hall Foundation, Tallinn, Estonia, 2011
Photo: Paul Kuimet
Olafur Eliasson
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BAROQUE BAROQUE

HMI lamps, glass, aluminum
Dimensions variable


As with much of Olafur Eliasson’s work, the visitor’s active participation is of vital importance. Your uncertain shadow (colour) comprises halogen lamps with variously colored bulbs on the floor and a white projection screen; as you walk across the room, your moving shadow is projected in a combination of flickering colors. “A row of small, bright spotlights in several colors lined up along one wall of an empty room. That’s all. Museum visitors who enter the room cast multiple shadows of varying color, darkness, and size, depending on their position, against the blank opposite wall. The sheer emptiness of the room focuses attention like a lens, with pinpoint intensity. The clutter of the senses in a spangled, noisy world is momentarily swept away. Willy-nilly, the visitors become experimenters: to move is to open or close the fan of shadows, to experience the laws of projection and the delight of the silhouette simultaneously.” – Lorraine Daston

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Exhibition: Olafur Eliasson: In real life
Venue: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Curators: Mark Godfrey and Lucía Agirre
February 14, 2020 - June 21, 2020


*1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark | Living and working in Copenhagen, Denmark and Berlin, Germany
Artists website
https://olafureliasson.net
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