Olafur Eliasson

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Since the 1990s, Olafur Eliasson has been exploring cognitive and physical phenomena as we know them from the natural sciences and nature. He uses both technically sophisticated equipment and deceptively simple means such as water or light to create artificial landscapes and moments of perception that let viewers perceive or reenact natural phenomena. Their strongly atmospheric but entirely constructed nature makes viewers become painfully conscious of how far modern civilization has progressed from immediate experience; they question the acceptance of authenticity in the area of perception. This lavish, oversized book, published in an edition of only 1,500 copies and conceived in cooperation with the artist, features a series of landscape photographs by Eliasson from his native Iceland, exploring the limits and conventions of our traditional view of landscape. They show that our perception of nature has been fundamentally affected by cultural influences, memories, and expectations.

Parkett #64: Collaborations: Olafur Eliasson, Tom Friedman, Rodney Graham

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Parkett #64: Collaborations: Olafur Eliasson, Tom Friedman, Rodney Graham
Olafur Eliasson , Tom Friedman , and Rodney Graham
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Olafur Eliasson (Contemporary Artists)

ASIN: 3907582144
Release Date: 2002-06-02

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Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading contemporary artists, Parkett has been the foremost international journal on contemporary art for nearly two decades. Issue No. 63 features collaborations with Tracey Emin, William Kentridge, and Gregor Schneider, three artists whose highly personal works affect viewers in an evocative manner, yet through strikingly different means. Emin bares her soul from the inside out, in her confessional multimedia photographs, drawings, videos, and installations. Kentridge's highly-charged films, drawings, sculptures, and theatrical productions analyze the history of his native South Africa and the implications and legacy of apartheid. And finally, Schneider's inside-out abodes turn the seemingly cozy and reassuring context of "home" into a haunting maze of opened and closed rooms, claustrophobic corridors and tunnels, and impenetrable windows and doors. Each of these artists draws us into their private worlds, diminishing the boundaries between artist and audience.

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Form Follows Fiction
Amy Adler , Takashi Murakami , Tim Noble , Chris Ofili , Sue Webster , Franz Ackermann , Toba Khedoori , Matthieu Laurette , Doug Aitken , Vanessa Beecroft , John Currin , Olafur Eliasson , Cai Guo-Qiang , Kurt Kauper , Margherita Manzelli , Gabriel Orozco , Pipilotti Rist , and Ida Gianelli
Manufacturer: Charta
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ASIN: 8881583577
Release Date: 2002-01-02

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As elements of our life move closer to art, and as art moves directly into life, the differences between the artificial and real are becoming progressively blurred. Form Follows Fiction focuses on a generation of artists who can no longer follow the modernist dictum "form follows function"; as our model of reality becomes more layered and less concrete, that decree morphs inevitably into "form follows fiction." Some of these artists create structures that intersect with everyday life, while others construct elaborate fictional systems that fuse elements of reality and fantasy. Some fashion elaborate invented worlds where past, present, and future are collapsed into one and where art historical icons and the debris of contemporary pop culture have equal relevance. All have developed new models of contemporary reality that are as fictional as they are real. Form Follows Fiction was conceived as a sequel to the 1992 exhibition Post Human, also curated by Jeffrey Deitch, which explored a new model of the human condition, pushing deep into the confusion between the artificial and the real.

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Olafur Eliasson (Contemporary Artists)
Madeleine Grynsztejn
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
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ASIN: 071484036X

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Young sculptor, photographer and installation artist Olafur Eliasson creates works that explore the relationship between nature and technology. Based in Berlin, the artist rebuilds in the gallery fragments of the environment: icebergs at the Mus+e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'windmills' at the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark. For Eliasson, immaterial sensations such as temperature, smell, taste, air and magnetic waves become sculptural elements when presented in an art context.Nominated in 2002 for the prestigious Hugo Boss prize, Eliasson has become a favourite in recent Biennales of contemporary art. Scandinavian curator Daniel Birnbaum discusses with the artist the role of location and the immediate environment in both his gallery (indoor) and remote-site (outdoor) work. In her Survey curator Madeleine Grynsztejn examines the unique position of this new international art star who overlaps architectural, technological and artistic innovation. Architecture theorist Michael Speaks looks at the artist's Green River (1998), particularly in relation to Antonioni's 1964 film, Red Desert. For his Artist's Choice the artist has selected an extract from Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution (1907) dealing with our subjective, visual response to nature - a central theme in the artist's own work. Olafur Eliasson's writings include essays on such topics as the weather and colour, as well as an open letter entitled 'Dear Everybody', addressed to the viewers moving through his artwork.

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Olafur Eliasson: The Blind Pavilion
Frederic Brown , Rodney Cotterill , Karl Holmquist , Frida Bjork Ingvarsdottir , Jakob Jakobsen , Svend Madsen , Anders Munch , Ingo Niermann , Gitte yrskou , Andrzej Przywara , Israel Rosenfield , Adam Szymczyk , Sheena Wagstaff , and Olafur Eliasson
Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Publishers
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ASIN: 3775713778
Release Date: 2004-02-02

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In Olafur Eliasson's exhibition The Blind Pavilion for the Danish pavilion at the most recent Venice Biennale, virtually all the strategies that the artist had employed up until now were activated: mirror reflections, glass kaleidoscopes, stretches of stairway, architectural interventions, and camera obscuras. An all-encompassing exhibition, it cancelled out the dividing lines between work and viewer, between outside and inside, between art and science. A parallel counterpart to the pavilion, rather than a mere representation of it, is the book The Blind Pavilion. Created by Eliasson in close collaboration with Danish author Svend Uge Madsen, who has persistently challenged our notions of time and space in his writings, The Blind Pavilion gathers writing by authors, poets, and theoreticians who were invited to contribute texts that explore our constantly shifting and ever-evolving capacity for "orienting" ourselves. The texts serve as contributions to an examination of how we physically and psychologically orient ourselves to the world--and of what happens when we are deprived of one or more of our orientation possibilities, for example our ability to hear and remember, to expect something, or to experience the passage of time.

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Olafur Eliasson: Photographs
Olafur Eliasson
Manufacturer: The Menil Foundation, Inc.
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ASIN: 0939594579
Release Date: 2004-08-01

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At once an installation artist and photographer, Olafur Eliasson is noted for conceptual works based on architecture, science, and natural phenomena. Through his installations--composed of materials such as ice, water, light, and metallic crystalline structures--and photographic series of landscapes, he generates a close connection between the phenomenology of things and their surroundings. His work sets out from human perception and, as he himself puts it, "questions the way we see and all the different systems of seeing." This first survey of Eliasson's photographic works focuses on an aspect of his oeuvre that has heretofore been marginalized, contextualizing his photographic projects within his broader scheme and within the history of contemporary art.

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Olafur Eliasson
Jill Medvedow , and Olafur Eliasson
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ASIN: 3775710426
Release Date: 2001-03-02

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This new catalogue accompanies the first major U.S. museum presentation of work by internationally celebrated Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, whose photography, sculpture, and installation work are distinguished by poetic economy of means and a quiet, elegant beauty. Eliasson's work typically transforms the museum or outdoor setting through installations that combine the artist's concerns with both the ephemeral natural effects of light, water, and wind and more tangible materials such as thorns, moss, and grass. His work is characterized by simplicity of approach. Despite its often-remarkable effects--rainbows, massive waterfalls, walls of steam--the technology required to create the work is relatively simple and clearly exposed for the viewer to observe. Eliasson has also worked extensively in the field of photography, frequently documenting the landscape of Iceland, his home for many years. Presented in serial grid format, Eliasson approaches photography with the mind of an amateur scientist, documenting different cave formations or icebergs in dozens of studies that take on the appearance of independent sculptural objects.

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Ica/Vita Brevis 1998-2003
John Stilgoe , Paul Tucker , Jill Medvedow , Ann Carlson , Jim Hodges , Krzysztof Wodiczko , Olafur Eliasson , Cornelia Parker , and Nari Ward
Manufacturer: Steidl/ICA, Boston
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ASIN: 3882438169
Release Date: 2004-08-02

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Vita Brevis was established in 1998 to broaden the reach of The Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA), adding relevance and visibility to adventurous present-day art. The program commissions artists from around the world to create temporary works of public art in response to Boston's rich landscape and history. Unusual and challenging settings are used for these projects--public parks, urban wilds, historic sites, roadways, riverbanks, and more--resulting in works that encourage people to experience Boston's environs and multifaceted history with renewed understanding and focus. Participating artists include Olafur Eliasson, Cornelia Parker, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ann Carlson, Nari Ward, Jim Hodges, and others. ICA/Vita Brevis 1998-2003: History, Landscape and Art documents the program's first five projects.

Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures

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Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures
Barbara Clausen , Lee Boroson , Ray Eames , Marit Folstad , Dorothee Golz , Sutee Kunavichayanont , Ann Lislegaard , Miri Segal , Annika von Hausswolff , James Lee Byars , Olafur Eliasson , Tom Friedman , Pipilotti Rist , and Piero Manzoni
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ASIN: 0916365646
Release Date: 2002-03-02

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Like some benign infestation, bubbles (and related forms) seem to be springing up everywhere lately in contemporary art. Thin Skin brings together some of the most interesting contemporary work involving malleable, inflatable materials, including pieces by James Lee Byars, Charles and Ray Eames, Olafur Eliasson, Tom Friedman, Piero Manzoni, Ernesto Neto, Pipilotti Rist, Miri Segal, and Andy Warhol. Thin Skin identifies their current popularity as a function of two contemporary conditions: a new awareness of 'in-between' spaces, spaces neither real nor completely virtual, situations neither entirely in our control nor totally beyond it; and a new understanding of our own bodies as permeable sensors in constant osmotic exchange as they move through these spaces. An original and thought-provoking accumulation of inflatables, Thin Skin proves that thinness and transparency are indeed the symbolic, and maybe even the real, skin that encase contemporary spaces and bodies.

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Cabinet 3: Weather
Joe Amrhein , Maria Blondeel , Spencer Finch , Allan Lamb , Gordon Monahan , Jenny Perlin , Chris Watson , Olafur Eliasson , Douglas Gordon , Vik Muniz , and Matthew Ritchie
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ASIN: 1932698019
Release Date: 2004-01-02

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Artwork by Joe Amrhein, Maria Blondeel, Spencer Finch, Allan Lamb, Gordon Monahan, Jenny Perlin, Chris Watson, Olafur Eliasson, Douglas Gordon, Vik Muniz, Matthew Ritchie. Photographs by Joel Sternfeld. Edited by Jeffrey Kastner.

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