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Article: Northern lights: in installations that variously involve light, color, geometry movement and more, Olafur Eliasson nudges the participant-viewer into an ambient perceptual awareness.("The weather project" at the Tate Modern, London, England)
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- Art in America
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- October 1, 2004
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I'm not talking about the water canning in the river. I'm not standing on the side of the river and watching the river passing by. I'm sitting in a boat in the river and watching the water and the bank always being now but constantly changing.--Olafur Eliasson
Walking into the Tate Modern last winter was like entering a misty cathedral illumined by a dim winter sun. The immense Turbine Hall, which serves as the entrance to the London museum, now appeared doubly vast, a shadowy infinity through which visitors gravitated toward the yellow aureole of light at the far end. Titled The weather project, the installation by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, fourth ...