Olafur Eliasson "Take your time"
MOMA PS1
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"Take Your Time" Olafur Eliasson is the first comprehensive survey in the United States of works by Olafur Eliasson, whose large-scale immersive environments, installations, sculptures, and photographs elegantly recreate the extremes of landscape and atmosphere in his native Iceland, at the same time as they foreground the sensory experience of the work itself. Drawing from public and private collections worldwide, the exhibition will include 34 works that explore Eliasson’s diverse range of artistic production from 1991 to the present, including six new works created specifically for The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Eliasson recontextualizes elements such as light, water, ice, fog, stone, and moss to create unique situations that shift the viewer’s perception of place and self. By transforming the gallery into a hybrid space of nature and culture, Eliasson prompts an intensive engagement with the world and offers a fresh consideration of everyday life.
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from April 20, 2008 to June 30, 2008
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Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson
With dual shows at MoMA and PS1, Icelandic artist Eliasson continues his work on awareness and perception, creating installations that play on viewers' senses. He uses water, light, mirrors and glass boxes in "Take Your Time" to a masterful effect.
I really liked the madcap messy "rooms" of sculptures, models, and lights-- I thought it was a nice view into the artist's mind. You get a sense that this is a person that likes to tinker, make, disassemble, and reconstruct. The photographs documenting his walks though did not do one thing for me. Go for the massive mirror room, lie down, and hang out-- let the creaking motor and movement remind you of being on an old boat on the sea (if you can get past the fear of the darn thing falling and flattening you like an acme co. anvil.)