Olafur Eliasson Plays with Lights and Mirrors in a Beautiful Viennese Palace

Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson's latest exhibition 'Baroque Baroque' takes place in the Baroque Belvedere Winter Palace in Vienna, Austria.

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Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson is an installation artist known for sculptures and large-scale pieces that often play with lights, water, and air temperature.

His latest exhibition, ‘Baroque Baroque’ opened on 19 November and will run through 6 March 2016. The exhibition is a sort of collaboration between the Baroque Belvedere Winter Palace in Vienna, the city’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) and Buenos Aires’ art collectors Juan and Patricia Vergez, along with the artist’s own science studio.

 

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The installation offers a unique pairing of art, aesthetics, glamour, and viewpoints from two different eras. Nevertheless, Olafur has managed to draw attention to some surprising similarities between his installations and their ornate surroundings. The majority of pieces take the form of reflections, projections and shadows – drawing the viewer into the world of refracted and distorted images.

 

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Olafur Eliasson has been involved in a number of well received public art projects in the past, including the intervention Green river (1998-2001), London’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in 2007, and The New York City Waterfalls in 2008.

In 2003, Olafur represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale, later installing his famous piece, The Weather Project, in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London, in the same year.

 

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1 Comment

  1. Pilar Pino on January 23, 2023 at 2:27 am

    Hi Onarto,

    I loved your article! In my thesis, I’m thinking of comparing the work of the 15th-century painter Jan van Eyck to Eliasson’s work. While van Eyck used perspectiva naturalis and perspectiva artificialis (Panofsky), Eliasson uses modern artificial perspective to achieve optical illusions. Eliasson’s atmospheric and immersive works integrate the surrounding while meticulously choosing architecture. Olafur Eliasson is preoccupied with nature, color, and mirrors, especially with studying light and its reflection from different surfaces, as did van Eyck.

    I would kindly appreciate your input and thoughts on this subject.

    Many thanks in advance.

    Regards,

    Pilar

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