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Four days and counting
Four, three, two, one – gone! There are just four days left until Take your time: Olafur Eliasson closes for good, but MCA is helping you to make the most of the short timeframe.
Innen Stadt Aussen
Olafur Eliasson’s upcoming exhibition Innen Stadt Außen is especially significant for two reasons. One, because it is his first solo exhibition in a Berlin institution. And two, because it centres on his close relationship with the city in which he works and lives.
Posted in Words & Inspiration Also tagged Berlin, INstitut fur Raumexperimente, museum
Multiple shadow house
This one is for all the New Yorkers out there (or those lucky enough to be visiting the Big Apple in the next week). Tanya Bonakdar Gallery recently opened a new exhibition by Olafur Eliasson titled Multiple shadow house. The namesake work in the exhibition combines Eliasson’s long running fascination with optics, light, colour and… us.
Posted in Words & Inspiration Also tagged Light, Multiple shadow house, New York, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
The inner cave series (1998)
Though more traditional than many of the other works in Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, ‘The inner cave series’ (1998) still awakens your senses and prompts evaluation of what we are witnessing, and how we interpret this information.
Posted in Visuals Also tagged MCA, Olafur Eliasson, perception, photography, Take Your Time
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 Also tagged Japan, Olafur Eliasson, Reflection
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 Also tagged interview, MCA, Olafur Eliasson, Sydney Ideas Quarterly
Take your time: Olafur Eliasson announced as part of Sydney Festival 2010
Every January, Sydney goes a little crazy for the performances, theatre, gigs and exhibitions that make up the Sydney Festival — and 2010 will be no different. Along with Al Green, Brooklyn musicians Grizzly Bear, John Cale and a risqué take on Hamlet, the program features Take your time: Olafur Eliasson.
Posted in Events Also tagged art, MCA, Sydney Festival
The installation begins!
Take your time: Olafur Eliasson is a mammoth show, not only in terms of scale of works but also in terms of the planning, transportation and installation involved. Things are building up for the installation team this week, with the last of six 40 ft containers arriving at the MCA loading dock.
Posted in Words & Inspiration Also tagged behind the scenes, installation, MCA, Moss Wall
Experiments in colour
Claude Monet once described colour as a “day-long obsession, joy and torment”. To Olafur Eliasson however, it is yet another experiment in human perception. His latest solo exhibition, Is the sky part of a landscape, focuses on the colour spectrum right down to the last nanometre.
Posted in Words & Inspiration Also tagged colour, Korea, Light, mirrors, perception
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