For this presentation, Eliasson, who now resides in Berlin, will create an installation involving both the Lower and Upper Galleries. This will be the artist's most significant presentation following his participation in the Danish Pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale and his extraordinary The Weather Project installation within the great Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London, which attracted over one-million visitors in its first three months.
Lower and Upper Galleries
Free Public Lecture
Olafur Eliasson Fri / August 6 / 5pm
Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is well known for site-specific sculptures and installations that reflect his unique vision of the natural world. His works fuse aspects of Earth and Minimal Art and often utilize common elements from nature, such as grass, light, steam, water, or ice. His projects are often simulations of natural phenomena which the artist renders through manmade processes. All of Eliasson's art‹whether sculpture, installation, or photography‹is intended to create a heightened sense of the viewer's surroundings.
For this presentation, Eliasson, who now resides in Berlin, will create an installation involving both the Lower and Upper Galleries. This will be the artist's most significant presentation following his participation in the Danish Pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale and his extraordinary The Weather Project installation within the great Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London, which attracted over one-million visitors in its first three months.
Major support for the Aspen Art Museum's 25th Anniversary exhibition program has been provided by the AAM National Council, Vicki and Kent Logan, Nancy and Bob Magoon, Susan and Larry Marx, Carolyn and Bill Powers, and Rosina Lee Yue and Bert A. Lies, Jr., M.D. with additional support from the City of Aspen, Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, the L.L.W.W. Foundation, Toby Devan Lewis and Jonathan Lewis, Kelli and Allen Questrom, Lynda and Stewart Resnick, Debra and Dennis Scholl, and June and Paul Schorr.
Image: Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project, 2003, installation view, Tate Modern, London. Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
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