Take your time: Olafur Eliasson opened on Thursday December 10 to an excited crowd. After speeches from MCA Director Elizabeth Ann MacGregor and Peter Garrett (Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts), viewers were left to explore ‘One way colour tunnel’ (2007), ‘Moss wall’ (1994) and ‘Beauty’ (1993) at their leisure.
It’s finally time! Take your time: Olafur Eliasson launched at MCA today with a sold out talk by the artist himself. Eliasson spoke about his creative process in relation to pieces such as ‘360° room for all colours’ (2002) and ‘Sunset kaleidoscope’ (2005). He also highlighted the importance of us — the viewers — to the [...]
Monday December 7, 6pm
Working on the weekend installing Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, MCA’s Install Coordinator, Tony Mighell takes us behind the scenes as the team gets down to the pointy end of installation…
As viewers of art or visitors to an exhibition, we remain blissfully unaware of the many hours that go into transporting, preparing and positioning each piece. Nadia Maljkovic is an MCA Educator and Preparator. She has recently been overseeing the installation of ‘Moss wall’ (1994) as part of Take your time: Olafur Eliasson and shares [...]
The start of another busy week! MCA’s Install Coordinator, Tony Mighell, posts his behind the scenes diary for Take your time: Olafur Eliasson.
To paraphrase online Sydney guide TwoThousand, Das Superpaper is ‘street press like you’ve never seen’. It doesn’t feature social pages, there is no paid advertising – but there is a lot of incredible art content, and the latest issue – in stores this week – features Olafur Eliasson.
Installation reflection