The All-Encompassing, Experiential Art Of Studio Olafur Eliasson Published In Print

Eliasson’s immersive conceptions dart between architecture, art, and design, and challenge human perception through the integration of light, sound, and color. Much of Eliasson’s work is, as he says, “An experiment into what art and architecture–considered as one–can do.” The new publication showcases a career of multidisciplinary artworks. This includes from 2003, ‘The Weather Project’ in London’s Tate Modern, a supersized sphere representing the sun with projections, haze machines and mono frequency lights; the 2014 project ‘Ice Watch’, an outdoor installation made from twelve melting blocks of glacial ice from Greenland brought to Copenhagen and Paris, and thirdly, ‘Your Rainbow Panorama’, a circular, 150 meter rainbow-tinted walkway atop a museum in Aarhus, Denmark.

Speaking of this last installation, Eliasson has explained that he wanted to create a space “That can almost be said to erase the boundary between inside and outside—a place where you become a little uncertain as to whether you have stepped into a work of art or into part of the museum.” The ideology behind this quote expands to cover a number of Eliasson’s projects, where an element of uncertainty is an invitation to the viewer to step outside their comfort zone. “This uncertainty is important to me”, he continues, “As it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to function.” Olafur Eliasson: Experience is published by Phaidon. To purchase a copy, click here.