I learned about him long time ago but only with his nature typologies photos. I recently looked him up again and was amazed by how much more he has made. The Notion Motion piece totally blew me out, this is exactly the idea behind my cameraless series. His installation is so photographic yet unrestricted by the idea that the result should be a fixed in the time 2D image. The viewers can see themselves how the image happens and that is more interesting, the transformation of tangible physical object into equally tangible shadows. The tension between the 2 images is that they are equally real, both are the result of their interaction with light, however, only one of them we perceive as real. The phenomena of light and seeing is central to the piece and it is delivered in such a direct way, as personal experience rather than a representation of it.
The only way my Georgigrams can be engaging is making them about something rather than the experiment itself. Or maybe I should stop using photo and try moving image or installation. Can I make something he hasn't done yet?
Biography:
Olafur Eliasson was born in 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark of Icelandic parentage. He attended the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen from 1989 to 1995. He has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide and his work is represented in public and private collections including the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Deste Foundation, Athens and Tate. Recently he has had major solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe and represented Denmark in the 2003 Venice Biennale. He currently lives and works in Berlin.
Quotes
1) I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
TED Lecture
(Personal experience versus representation. His experiments with perceptions of space are aimed at the practical idea of designing and creating spaces to be inhabited, in such a way that the personal and the social are in balance)
2) Eliasson’s transparent application of simple technologies, familiar from previous works, is coupled in Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned with an indication of our reliance on legible, objective interfaces, measures that stand between a direct sensory experience and the true empirically established, true nature of the object of contemplation.
Dundee: Dundee Contemporary Arts, 1999: 5-13. exhibition catalog as pdf
Works
Notion Motion 2005
Eine Beschreibung einer Reflexion 1995
The Weather Project 2003
The Large Glacier Surfer 2007
Umschreibung 2004Review:
Many of Eliasson’s works explore the relationship between the spectator and object. In Your Sun Machine (1997) viewers entered a room which was empty apart from a large circular hole punctured in the roof. Each morning, sunlight streamed into the space through this aperture, at first creating an elliptical, then a circular outline on the walls and floor. The beam of light shifted across the room as the day progressed. The movement of the ‘sun’ across the room was apparently the central focus of the work, but in observing this, the viewer was reminded of his or her own position as an object, located on earth, spinning through space around the real sun.
Tate Modern
Representation:
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery NYC
Web site: http://www.olafureliasson.net
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