‘Artist with the brain of a Scientist’
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DANISH-ICELANDIC artist Olafur Eliasson astounded the art world in 2003 with his Weather Project in London’s Tate Modern, where he created the illusion of a rising sun.
Eliasson used humidifiers to create a fine mist of sugared water in the air and a circular disc of hundreds of monochromatic lamps that radiated yellow light. The ceiling of the hall inside Tate Modern was covered with a huge mirror, in which visitors saw themselves as tiny black shadows against a mass of orange light. Open for six months, the work reportedly attracted two million visitors.
Five years later, Eliasson was commissioned by The Public Art Fund to create four manmade waterfalls in New York’s harbor. Called the New York City Waterfalls, the cascades ranged in a height from 90-120 feet (27.4-36.6 meters). The display cost US$15.5 million, one of the most expensive public art projects ever mounted. It ran for about five months.
Now Eliasson is in Shanghai for a solo exhibition entitled “Nothingness is nothing at all” at the Long Museum on the West Bund.
“I wanted to amplify the feeling of the cavernous museum galleries by installing artworks that invite visitors to look inward, to question how their senses work and dream up utopias for everyday life,” he said before the opening of the exhibition.
It brings together artworks from the artist’s vast oeuvre, dating back to the early 1990s: installations, sculptures, paintings, drawings and film. A number of new artworks were conceived especially for the Long Museum exhibition, including the installation entitled “The Open Pyramid.”
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