Seu planeta compartilhado, 2011
Olafur Eliasson
Installation view: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna, Austria, 2015
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna, Austria, 2015
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view: “Your Body of Work” Pinacoteca do Estado, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2011
Photo: Olafur Eliasson, 2011
Photo: Olafur Eliasson, 2011
Olafur Eliasson, Seu planeta compartilhado, 2011
Stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mirrors, 195 x 325 x 200 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mirrors, 195 x 325 x 200 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Olafur Eliasson, Seu planeta compartilhado, 2011
Stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mirrors, 195 x 325 x 200 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mirrors, 195 x 325 x 200 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Loans
Collection
Stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mirrors
195 x 289 x 149 cm
Your shared planet presents itself as a sequence of four individually shaped and colored kaleidoscopes, resting on a unified metallic frame. The work – ranging in shape from triangular and hexagonal to rhombic and square – invites the viewer to become an active co-producer of space by walking along the curved, open side of the viewing machine. Moving along the openings at eye-level, a faceted view of the surrounding space unfolds, in changing colors from yellow to green, turquoise, and blue. The tapered ends of the four kaleidoscopes are synchronised in their orientation to a single, shared vanishing point. The process of seeing the space through a sequence of kaleidoscopes produces seemingly infinite fragmentary reflections; a spherical shape emerges, the image of a shared space, and ultimately a shared planet.Your shared planet touches on a recurrent theme in Eliasson’s work: the co-dependency of perception, space, and universe.
PAST LOANS
Group exhibition: Abundant Futures
Venue: C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
Curator: Daniela Zyman
April 1, 2022 - March 5, 2023
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1967. Lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and Berlin, Germany.
195 x 289 x 149 cm
Your shared planet presents itself as a sequence of four individually shaped and colored kaleidoscopes, resting on a unified metallic frame. The work – ranging in shape from triangular and hexagonal to rhombic and square – invites the viewer to become an active co-producer of space by walking along the curved, open side of the viewing machine. Moving along the openings at eye-level, a faceted view of the surrounding space unfolds, in changing colors from yellow to green, turquoise, and blue. The tapered ends of the four kaleidoscopes are synchronised in their orientation to a single, shared vanishing point. The process of seeing the space through a sequence of kaleidoscopes produces seemingly infinite fragmentary reflections; a spherical shape emerges, the image of a shared space, and ultimately a shared planet.Your shared planet touches on a recurrent theme in Eliasson’s work: the co-dependency of perception, space, and universe.
PAST LOANS
Group exhibition: Abundant Futures
Venue: C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
Curator: Daniela Zyman
April 1, 2022 - March 5, 2023
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1967. Lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and Berlin, Germany.
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Olafur Eliasson, BAROQUE BAROQUE. Exhibition featuring works from Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the Juan & Patricia Vergez collections at Winter Palace, Vienna 2015. Direct link here , exhibition catalog here. Article by Wallpaper* Magazine here
Eliasson, Olafur & Volz, Jochen. Your Body of Work. Curatorial Text, Critical Texts by Lisette Lagnado, Guilherme Wisnik and Interview with the artist, 2011. 17th International Contemporary Art Festival and Associação Cultural Videobrasil. Full material here
Luciana Chen, Myrna. Nacimiento Cuerpo, espacio y tiempo: (in) visibilidades en las obras de Kusama, Salat y Eliasson/ Body, space and time: (in) visibilities in the works of Kusama, Salat and Eliasson (ENG/ES). Essay, 2019. pp 147-151, here
Olafur Eliasson on light, art, and Little Sun, video, 2019
Light! On light in life and the life in light, Forlaget Tor.dk, 2015
Life In Space: Einar Thorsteinn – Fivefold Symmetry, video, Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015
Eliasson, Olafur & Volz, Jochen. Your Body of Work. Curatorial Text, Critical Texts by Lisette Lagnado, Guilherme Wisnik and Interview with the artist, 2011. 17th International Contemporary Art Festival and Associação Cultural Videobrasil. Full material here
Luciana Chen, Myrna. Nacimiento Cuerpo, espacio y tiempo: (in) visibilidades en las obras de Kusama, Salat y Eliasson/ Body, space and time: (in) visibilities in the works of Kusama, Salat and Eliasson (ENG/ES). Essay, 2019. pp 147-151, here
Olafur Eliasson on light, art, and Little Sun, video, 2019
Light! On light in life and the life in light, Forlaget Tor.dk, 2015
Life In Space: Einar Thorsteinn – Fivefold Symmetry, video, Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2015