You might have read about Olafur Eliasson’s skateboard collaboration, ‘Your mercury ocean’ (2009) , with Mekanism Skateboards. Now – if you’re headed Japan way – you can see the real thing.
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Your chance encounter
You might have read about Olafur Eliasson’s skateboard collaboration, ‘Your mercury ocean’ (2009) , with Mekanism Skateboards. Now – if you’re headed Japan way – you can see the real thing.
Posted in Words & Inspiration Tagged exhibition, Japan, Olafur Eliasson, Reflection
Colour theory
In the 1600s, Sir Isaac Newton split white sunlight into orange, red, yellow, green, cyan and blue beams and arranged them in a circular formation. In 2010, what has become known as colour theory has been studied by millions of people (including Goethe, Chevrell, Albers, and a few less-enthused art students).
Eye see you (2006)
It had collaborated with Philippe Stark and Takashi Murakami, but when fashion house Louis Vuitton commissioned Olafur Eliasson to create a work for its store windows in 2006, it got something entirely different with ‘Eye see you’ (2006).
Posted in Words & Inspiration Tagged collaboration, eye, Light, Louis Vuitton
White light refracts, Beauty (1993)
Although it appears as if by magic, there is no ‘man behind the curtain’ nor wizardry to decipher in Olafur Eliasson’s ‘Beauty’ (1993).
Interview with Olafur Eliasson
Half way through 2009, local arts writer Adam Jasper flew to Berlin to speak to Olafur Eliasson about his — then upcoming — exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson. In a recently published article for Sydney Ideas Quarterly, the two talk about modifying the exhibition specifically for the MCA, Eliasson’s approach to art and the role [...]
Posted in Interviews Tagged exhibition, interview, MCA, Olafur Eliasson, Sydney Ideas Quarterly
One way colour tunnel (2007)
Originally commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ‘One-way colour tunnel’ (2007) is now installed on the third floor at the MCA for the duration of Take your time: Olafur Eliasson.
Posted in Visuals Tagged colour, llight, mirrors, One way colour tunnel
World gazing, Sunset kaleidoscope (2005)