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The exhibition, «Olafur Eliasson in real life», was organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
Olafur Eliasson, Danish Icelandic contemporary artist born in Copenhagen in 1967, has indeed established a very special link with the Tate Modern. In 2003, his meteorological project with its bright sun had already attracted more than two million visitors, and in 2018, his Ice Watch exhibition with pieces of ice from Greenland in London.
Once again and in a burning period on the subject, Olafur Eliasson reveals a work to bring a new perspective to the problems of climate change, energy, migration and architecture.
Playing with natural phenomena such as rainbows, reflections and shadows, the artist’s works make us aware of our sensory perceptions, the beings around us and the universe as a whole.
This interaction with the world is made alive by many of the artist’s works on complex geometry, motion patterns and his keen interest in color theory. In his studio-laboratory, questioning and experimentation constitute the fundamental basis of his artistic approach. He connects design and science in notions of space and temporality. He thus succeeds in communicating domains whose common points have no obvious a priori. He likes to give a narrative dimension to each of his works so that it can leave a trace in the form of sensation or image in the memory of the spectators.
Olafur Eliasson
The presence of absence pavilion
2019
Bronze
200 x 100 x 100 cm
Installation view: Tate Modern, London
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Courtesy the artist; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles
© 2019 Olafur Eliasson