Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliassonis known for his large scale public art projects like "The New York City Waterfalls" (2008). In his recent work, the artist also explores living spaces and the home.
Olafur Eliasson's work was recently on view in New York city in two separate venues: "Multiple shadow house" took over the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery and "Your House" (2006), a laser-cut and hand-bound book, was on view at the Slash exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design. "Multiple shadow house" is a building that you can walk around and inside. Lights in different colors are “Your House” is a book with each page a cutout of the home — as the pages turn, the home gradually changes in size, adding rooms and altering shape.
Because his work involves constructed spaces, for past projects Olafur Eliasson has worked closely with architects. See more of Olafur Eliasson's artwork on his website.
Images: "Multiple shadow house" (2010) from the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery; "Your House" (2006) from Museum of Arts and Design; "Concentric mirror" (2003) from The Museum of Modern Art
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Comments (7)
man, i used to love him so much. flew to london for the weather project and nyc for the waterfalls. i defended those things! then i had to work with him. he's an ass. a pompous exactly-what-you'd-expect art-snob ass.
But this installation is muy cool, no?
"explores living spaces". Man, in my neighborhood, we call that burglary ;-)
I loved his exhibition at SFMOMA several years ago... supercool. Sorry to hear he's not very nice personally, though.
We work with him at my gallery as well, but he's one of the few artist I have not met. Regardless, I would always admire his work. His work really amazes me. I hope he was just having a bad time when you worked that exhibit.
oh and I love the mirror pieces.
The thing with this guy is that he , and his huge lobby, pay other artists to come up with ideas and to actually create the art.
There are hundreds of poor talented people who has been doing stuff for him just to get money.
Also, there are some fairly unknown artists that have been ruthlessly copied, such as Gianni Colombo and Ann Veronica Janssens