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Concepts in Space: The Experimental Art of Olafur Eliasson (Taschen) An encyclopedic review of artist Olafur Eliasson's work in his Berlin and Copenhagen studios, it includes his installations, photographs, sculptures and architectural projects...
Even at the retail level, luxury-goods houses are falling over themselves to commission in-store art installations. Last year Louis Vuitton ordered up an installation by Olafur Eliasson for its Christmas windows in 360 stores around the world. Similarly, the Jil Sander store in Chicago has just tapped local artists Selina Trepp, Cody Hudson and Terence Hannum to display their works as part of a show entitled "Throb Throb: Rock and Roll Currents in Chicago Art Today...
...SFMOMA exhibition, which travels later to New York City and Dallas, is Eliasson's first American museum show. It arrives at a time when he's the object of intense curiosity in U.S. art circles, largely because of The weather project, a hugely popular installation he produced four years ago for London's Tate Modern. Eliasson covered the 115-ft.-high (35 m) ceiling of the Tate's immense Turbine Hall in mirror foil, added an artificial sun of 200 yellow lightbulbs arranged behind translucent plastic and periodically filled the upper air with mist. During the installation's six-month...
...weather project was Eliasson's Sistine Chapel, and it made him a star of some magnitude, a role he's still not quite comfortable with. He sees his work as an antidote to the consuming spectacles of our time-TV, video, computer games-so he would rather not turn into a spectacle himself. His ambition is not just to delight people but also to awaken them out of a passive relation to the world. Whether this is a job mere art can accomplish remains to be seen. But it helps to explain why Eliasson has given quite...
Since his success at the Tate, projects have proliferated-a light wall for the Oslo Opera House, a kind of artwork/observatory tower in London, the sets for a touring opera. Eliasson lives in Copenhagen with his wife, an art historian, and the two children they adopted from Ethiopia. But his studio is in Berlin, where he employs 30 or more people. On any given day he may collaborate with technicians, architects and mathematicians. Yet the finished product is often remarkably simple. You could say that some combination of straightforward means and subtle effects is the signature of Eliasson's best...