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Article: Olafur Eliasson.(New York)(Modelroom, 2003; Plane Scanner, 2003)
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- Artforum International
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- September 1, 2003
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TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY
A viewer rushing to Olafur Eliasson's latest exhibition expecting a quiet epiphany or a spontaneous unveiling of the mechanisms of perception--an "Aha!" moment, as the artist says--would have been disappointed, at least initially. Eliasson had turned the gallery's main space into a cluttered workshop in which cobbled-together shelves and ad hoc vitrines lined the walls and spilled into the center--not a stark, subtle "intervention" by any means. Titled Modelroom, 2003, the work was true to its name, functioning primarily as an invitation into the artist's preparatory processes, which, we learned, are made up of equal parts architecture and ...
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Article: Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded. Essays on ...
Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine;
January 1, 2003 ;
549 words
...Peter Weibel, ed., Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded. Essays on Science and Space ... the ZKM/Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, Olafur Eliasson chose to position his work, like the title of the exhibition ...
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