Born in 1967, Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic contemporary artist whose works have been recognised and exhibited worldwide. Growing up in Copenhagen with separated Icelandic parents, he showed interest in art from a young age, following his artist father to their family home in Iceland each summer. Eliasson had his first solo show very young, at 15, exhibiting drawings at a small gallery in Denmark. He attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 to 1995, and since then has had countless solo and group shows. At present he works at Studio Olafur Eliasson, a workspace he founded for tens of artists and he himself describes as more of an experimental laboratory than a studio.
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Olafur Eliasson’s works consistently engage the elements and nature- be it to bring said things into the urban environment of a gallery or to make use of them in their natural state, outdoors. In The Weather Project, Eliasson brings inside the weather, which is a part of the natural world that is ever-present, even in our concrete cities. He has brought a part of London into the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, where this project was realised in 2003. The installation is fairly simple to describe- a semicircular ‘sun’ giving off a yellow light hangs high above the hall, set against an uneven ceiling mirror which reflects the semicircle into a full, yet imperfect one. Fine mist is released into the hall, dappling the light and making the reflection in the mirror above subtly blurred and changed from what is below …show more content…
Whilst being non-toxic, the dyes were a sickly, unmissable bright green. As the colour bloomed and floated downstream, the people of the cities chosen were shocked, as Eliasson always started the dyes unannounced and without warning. Once again, it was the people’s reaction that interested Eliasson. And this changed hugely between every city that set the scene for a Green River. In Stockholm, all passing by stopped to stare, the intervention stirring up a lot of excitement and confusion. Eliasson’s work was soon headlining on local newspapers. Similarly to The Weather Project, Green River managed to change people’s state, break them out of their monotonous everyday routines. He did this by disrupting their environment, and by doing so he created a tiny change in the ordinary
Whilst he is now most well known for his installations, …show more content…
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Olafur Eliasson’s works consistently engage the elements and nature- be it to bring said things into the urban environment of a gallery or to make use of them in their natural state, outdoors. In The Weather Project, Eliasson brings inside the weather, which is a part of the natural world that is ever-present, even in our concrete cities. He has brought a part of London into the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, where this project was realised in 2003. The installation is fairly simple to describe- a semicircular ‘sun’ giving off a yellow light hangs high above the hall, set against an uneven ceiling mirror which reflects the semicircle into a full, yet imperfect one. Fine mist is released into the hall, dappling the light and making the reflection in the mirror above subtly blurred and changed from what is below …show more content…
Whilst being non-toxic, the dyes were a sickly, unmissable bright green. As the colour bloomed and floated downstream, the people of the cities chosen were shocked, as Eliasson always started the dyes unannounced and without warning. Once again, it was the people’s reaction that interested Eliasson. And this changed hugely between every city that set the scene for a Green River. In Stockholm, all passing by stopped to stare, the intervention stirring up a lot of excitement and confusion. Eliasson’s work was soon headlining on local newspapers. Similarly to The Weather Project, Green River managed to change people’s state, break them out of their monotonous everyday routines. He did this by disrupting their environment, and by doing so he created a tiny change in the ordinary