With images that suggest a modern day Caspar David Friedrich, sculptor, installation artist and photographer Olafur Eliasson recreates in elegant forms the extremes of the landscape and the atmospheric conditions of his native Denmark, resulting in a kind of techno-Romanticism. Now based in Berlin, Eliasson rebuilds in the gallery fragments of a faraway land: icebergs at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'windmills' at the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark. For Eliasson, immaterial sensations such as temperature, smell, taste, air and magnetic waves become sculptural elements. A simple circular cut in the ceiling of a gallery in Los Angeles, for example, recreates the feeling of the weak Scandinavian sun, and becomes a kind of giant sun-clock reminiscent of both Gordon Matta-Clark's architectural cut-outs and the oculus of the Pantheon. In her survey, curator Madeleine Grynsztejn examines the unique position of the artist, overlapping technological and artistic innovation in the creation of his art. Critic and curator Daniel Birnbaum discusses with the artist the role of location and the immediate environment in both his gallery (indoor) and remote-site (outdoor) work. Architectural theorist Michael Speaks looks in his Focus at the work Green river (1998) particularly in relation to filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni's 1964 film, Red Desert. The artist has selected an extract from Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution (1907) dealing with our subjective, visual response to nature, a theme central also in the artist's own work. Olafur Eliasson's writings include an essay on that most banal of topics, the weather, and an open letter entitled 'Dear Everybody' addressed to the viewers.

Olafur Eliasson (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Madeleine Grynsztejn

Michael Speaks

Daniel Birnbaum

Olafur Eliasson

Arts & Photography

Phaidon Press

Olafur Eliasson - Your Position Surrounded and Your Surroundings Positioned

Katrina Brown

Dundee Contemporary Arts

Log 43 responds to the many geometries seen in contemporary forms with The Issue of Geometry, a special section guest edited by architectural designer and educator Cameron Wu. Some 25 years after the digital revolution of the 90s, Wu asks, If we are now armed with a more mature understanding of instrumental design tools, how do we reanimate geometry as a design protagonist rather than a mere design enabler or incidental outcome? The architects responses range from Peter Carl's interest in rhythm to Iman Fayyad's perspectival anomalies; from Wes Jones's reassessment of the many relationships of geometry and architecture to Patrik Schumacher's advocating for tectonism; from Andrew Witt's concept of grayboxing to George L. Legendre's form haiku. Wu also offers geometric analyses of five recent buildings, and artist Olafur Eliasson, architect Preston Scott Cohen, and architect Henry N. Cobb talk about their advanced uses of geometry. Log 43 also features essays on architecture's withdrawal from and engagement with architectural austerity, the architecture of crypto mining, and Miesian materiality, as well as a conversation with Japanese architect Hiromi Fujii.

Log 43

Thomas Daniell

Iman Fayyad

Matthew Mullane

Pierre Chabard

Peter, Carl

Cameron Wu

Preston Scott Cohen

Xhulio Binjaku

Souhei Imamura

Josan Ruiz Esquíroz

Henry N. Cobb

Sebastian Behmann

Wes Jones

George L. Legendre

Architecture

Anyone Corporation

This title presents the experimental art of Olafur Eliasson. It offers an encyclopedic vision on Olafur Eliasson's art and architecture in xl-format. Limited to 200 numbered copies, delivered in a luxurious clamshell box and each signed by the artist, the Art Edition features a special cover custom made by Olafur Eliasson: a cnc-formed metal plate imitating the prismatic effect of raindrops falling into water. Studio Olafur Eliasson is an experimental laboratory located in Berlin. Led by renowned Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, it functions as an interdisciplinary space, generating fresh dialogues between art and its surroundings. This rich sourcebook enables the reader to delve into the corners and crevices of the Studio's diverse projects. The key concepts behind the works are presented alphabetically, and unfold in the course of short conversations with the artist. The majority of Eliasson's thought-provoking installations, photographs, sculptures, and architectural projects to date is included, with additional material focusing on the research processes at Studio Olafur Eliasson. The introduction is provided by the noted art historian Philip Ursprung, who also participates in the conversations.

Studio Olafur Eliasson: Art Edition

Philip Ursprung

Taschen America, LLC

The work of the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born in Copenhagen, 1967) focuses on sensorial perception, the laws of physics and natural phenomena. He works in a variety of media, but is particularly known for his sculptural installations for specific places. His use of light, water, ice and clouds in these spaces is a reflection of his Icelandic roots,and the complexity and diversity of his work have made him a point of reference in the current international art scene. Olafur Eliasson was awarded the Joan Miro Prize in 2007 for his status as one of the leading artists of our times. His work has been shown in major museums around the world. "Light Lab" was at the Portikus centre in Frankfurt and "Take your Time:Olafur Eliasson," a retrospective for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that was later exhibited in the MoMA in New York.

Olafur Eliasson: The Nature of Things (English, Spanish and French Edition)

Individual Artists

Fundacio Joan Miro

"How should we light our homes and our lives? How do we go about it without com-promising quality of life or respect for the climate and sustainability? The light in our lives has deteriorated. There is too little daylight in our everyday lives and artificial light has become increasingly crude. Energy-saving bulbs are devoid of decent colours; high-end lamps and lighting fixtures are designed to look good rather than to give good light. The result is an insidious decline in quality of life of which we are seemingly unaware. Because the importance of light in our lives goes practically unremarked. We must teach ourselves to experience light so that we know how it affects us. We must discover how light sets the stage for our everyday lives to back us up or make us feel down. We also need to experience everyday life with good light that promotes the good life and environment all over the world." Olafur Eliasson (f. 1967) is a Danish-Islandic artist who for decades has been working with how we see the light and how it affects us. His work of art is simple and is built on a philosophic engagement in the understanding of how we sense and act in the world. Tor Nørretranders (f. 1955) is a Danish writer who has written several books that show how we sense the world and how it senses us. The everyday language of the books is built on a theoretic engagement in the understanding of perception and expression.

Light! On light in life and the life in light

Tor Nørretranders

Forlaget Tor.dk

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