Olafur Eliasson Exhibition
MOMA PS1
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Over the past 15 years, Danish-Iceland Olafur Eliasson has experimented with installations based on mechanisms of motion, projection, shadow, and reflection, creating complex optical phenomena using simple, makeshift technical devices. Take your time is a monumental installation, whose large-scale, immersive environments shift the viewer's perception and experience of place and self. A circular mirror, 40 feet in diameter and weighing 1,000 pounds, is mounted to the ceiling at an angle, rotating at one revolution per minute. The installation destabilizes viewer's perception of space as they pass beneath it.
The piece was made specifically for P.S.1's Third Floor Main Gallery as part of the artist's first comprehensive retrospective in the United States, Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, on view at MoMA and P.S.1 from April 20 until June 30, 2008.
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from June 30, 2008 to January 26, 2009