NUMBER ONE HUNDRED & FORTY THREE.
June14
Regular readers might remember this post on Olafur Eliasson. Earlier this year Eliasson completed work on the spectacular Your Rainbow, which is essentially a viewing platform, permanently installed above the ARos Museum of Art in Aarhus, Denmark. The circular walkway, located fifty stories high, allows the viewer to circumnavigate a corridor lined with panes of glass in every colour in the spectrum. Interestingly, the pace at which you move through the installation effects the way you perceive the colours: “If you maintain a quick pace, the colours remain vibrant. But if you pause in one colour zone, the hue around you grows pale while the colours in your peripheral vision, where the walkway curves, intensify. Colour intensities depend on your speed.” This beautiful, architectural work continues Eliasson’s infatuation with colour, and his dialogue between his art and his native land.
NUMBER FIFTY TWO.
March24
If you’re a Sydney-sider and haven’t as yet been to the MCA to see Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition Take Your Time, shame on you! But you still have time to redeem yourself, as the exhibition continues until April 11 and will only set you back fifteen dollars (or even less if you’re a student).
From the glowing yellow room Room For One Colour to 360 Degree Room For All Colours, a ten-metre circular enclosure bathing the viewer in every tone of the spectrum, Eliasson’s body of work explores the play between light and shadow, transparency and reflection. Individual works find inspiration in the distinctive landscape of Eliasson’s ancestral country, Iceland, and constantly invite us to become active agents in the interactive pieces, rather than passive observers.
