Olafur Eliasson
dal 7/9/2005 al 8/1/2006
Segnalato da
7/9/2005
Olafur Eliasson
Lunds Konsthall, Lund
The light setup. The artist has worked with natural phenomena like light, water and temperature. By inserting these into artificial surroundings, he challenges us to sharpen our senses and to reflect on our relationship with and our understanding of the physical environment that we occupy in our everyday lives.
The light setup
The light setup, the autumn show at Lund Konsthall, will present a wide
spectrum of works by Olafur Eliasson from the years 1997-2005. Some 40
pieces - light installations, objects, models and photographs - interact to
create a strikingly intense atmosphere.
Throughout his artistic practice, Olafur Eliasson has worked with natural
phenomena like light, water and temperature. By inserting these into
artificial surroundings Eliasson challenges us to sharpen our senses and to
reflect on our relationship with and our understanding of the physical
environment that we occupy in our everyday lives.
At Lund Konsthall various experiments employing ingenious technical
solutions will turn the exhibition space into something reminiscent of a
laboratory or artist's studio where visitors can not only study the
techniques involved but even experiment themselves. Presenting the
constructions as an important aspect of the works is a way of deliberately
demystifying the phenomena that the visitor encounters and helps to break
down their seemingly sensational aspects. Eliasson thus invites visitors to
be aware of their own vision and to take an active part in creating and
experiencing the works. We become partners in creating the images that are
generated.
Olafur Eliasson's artistic practice is characterized by the serious study
that underlies it. In this regard his approach is similar to other types of
research illustrated in various ways through the series of photographs,
models and light experiments that will be on display at Lund Konsthall. In
the manner of a visual inventory the series of photographs document
phenomena like melting ice flows, deep pools and horizons. They are grouped
according to subject types and presented in accordance with a strict grid
pattern. However, in a work like Room for one colour the careful examination
of the wavelengths of light is given a playful framework which results in
all the colours in the room being subordinated to the yellow nuance and
being seen as a scale consisting of shades of black and white. This playful
inventiveness is highly characteristic of Eliasson's art.
The two exhibitions featuring Olafur Eliasson to be shown this autumn are
being jointly organized by Lund Konsthall and Malmö Konsthall. They can be
seen as a single entity offering a unique opportunity to engage with Olafur
Eliasson's wide-ranging oeuvre. The Lund exhibition illustrates the breadth
of Eliasson's artistic investigations, while at Malmö Konsthall the
experiment has been enlarged into a giant format which shifts the focus from
the experimental aspect to how we experience the results of the experiment.
Examination of the light is a central aspect of the new work that fills
Malmö Konsthall. The two exhibitions complement and enrich each other and
point to the complexity underlying all of Olafur Eliasson's work; the
interplay between experiment, experience, a work of art and "reality".
Olafur Eliasson was born in 1967. He is currently based both in Berlin and
Copenhagen. Among his recent exhibitions and projects we may mention:
Minding the world at the ARoS Kunstmuseum in Ã…rhus, 2004, Your lighthouse at
the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 2004, The weather project at Tate Modern in London
2003, The blind pavilion, the Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2003,
as well as public commissions in Denmark and Sweden including a candelabra
for Copenhagen's new opera house 2004 and Movement meter for Lernacken by
the new bridge in Malmö 2000.
Press preview: Lund Konsthall, Thursday 8 September at 2 pm.
Opening: Lund Konsthall, Friday 9 September at 5-7 pm.
Lund Konsthall
MÃ¥rtenstorget 3 - Lund