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Olafur EliassonContact is content at Seljalandsfoss, Contemporary, 21st Century, C Print2014
2014
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Contact is content at Seljalandsfoss, Contemporary, 21st Century, C Print
C-Print
Edition of 100
Each 53 x 42 cm (20 x 16.5 in.)
Signed and numbered on adhesive label
In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher
With certificate of authenticity
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Hiking through the Icelandic landscape means to get oneself into it. In this loneliness full of moss, lichens, volcanic stones, and the melancholic bird-call of the golden plover high above it, it is difficult, Eliasson once said, to say if a destination is 30 minutes away or maybe three hours or three days. So the question is about the point of view, about the perspective one has.
"People see space as a compilation, the placing of layers on top of each other. But you can also make a space by removing all the surrounding elements and then seeing what’s left."—Olafur Eliasson
A recurring motif of waterfalls within the artist’s oeuvre, beginning with his photo-documentation of them in Iceland in 1996 – when this image of Seljalandsfoss was taken – expanding to his installations Waterfall and Reverse waterfall in 1998, and culminating in the four massive artificial waterfalls the artist erected in the East River in 2008 as part of The New York City Waterfalls.
OLAFUR ELIASSON
Known for his sculptural works as well as large-scale installations, which employ elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. The Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson was born in 1964, in New York, USA. He established his own studio in Berlin in 1995, which can be defined as a laboratory for spatial research. Eliasson represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The Weather Project in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern Museum, in London.
His artistic practice is elegant simplicity and lack of materiality, his installations are rooted in a belief that art can create a space sensitive to both individual and collective. Probing the cognitive aspects of what it means to see, Eliasson creates complex optical phenomena using simple, makeshift technical devices: colored bulbs bathe a room in yellow light, turning everything inside monochrome; strobes illuminate a thin curtain of falling water, causing the eye to "freeze" the droplets in midair... By making visible the mechanics of his works and laying bare the artifice of the illusion, Eliasson points to the elliptical relationship between reality, perception, and representation.
“It is not just about decorating the world… but about taking responsibility."—Olafur Eliasson.
As a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, from 2009 to 2014, Olafur Eliasson founded the Institute for Spatial Experiments (Institut für Raumexperimente, IfREX), which opened within his studio building in April 2009. A vastly exhibited artist, Eliasson´s work is held in the following permanent collections: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York, Centre for International Light Art (CILA), in Unna, Germany, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Los Angeles. An artist that rarely appears to be offered at auction, his public sale record was set for his sculptural work "Fivefold eye", created in 2000, which was sold for over $1,5 million at Christie´s auction house in London in October 2007.
- Creator:Olafur Eliasson (1967, Danish)
- Creation Year:2014
- Dimensions:Height: 20.87 in (53 cm)Width: 16.54 in (42 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Zug, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1562212975952
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