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Light and Space Art Movement

Light Artist Olafur Eliasson, born Aug 23, 1967

 

‘Firefly double-polyhedron sphere experiment’, 2020
(photo: Jens Ziehe).

The works of artist Olafur Eliasson explore the relevance of art in the world at large. Born in 1967, Eliasson grew up in Iceland and Denmark, where he studied from 1989 to 1995 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1995, he moved to Berlin and founded Studio Olafur Eliasson, which today comprises a large team of craftsmen, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, cooks, programmers, art historians, and specialised technicians. Eliasson lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin.
courtesy of https://olafureliasson.net/

When Olafur Elisasson was born in 1967, Mel and Dorothy Tanner, the founders of Lumonics, had already begun to work with light, beginning with geometric shapes such as cubes and columns.

 


“I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.” 

Colour experiment no. 113, 2021
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin
Photo: Jens Ziehe

 


“My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.” 

 


Rhombic kaleidoscope 2010/2022, 2010/2022
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin
Photo: Jens Ziehe

Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and color are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes. 

 

Missing Left Brain, 2022
Photo: Jens Ziehe
“The Missing Left Brain unfurls before the viewer as a constantly changing lightshow of shapes, colours, and shadows, created through the reflection and refraction of light. The symmetrical sequence develops and vanishes in a slow continuum upon a circular screen that seems to hover in the space.”

 

 

“Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.”

 

 

Tomorrow flare, 2021
Studio Olafur Eliasson
Photo: Jens Ziehe

“The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork. I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.”

 

 

Atmospheric wave wall, 2020
Willis Tower, Chicago
Photo: Darris Lee Harris

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