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Article: Olafur twist: with his monumental conceptual pieces--reverse waterfalls, indoor sunsets, rivers dyed green--Olafur Eliasson is creating art that mesmerizes critics and crowds alike.(Profile)
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By all objective measures, it's raining on this spring day in Berlin: Massive drops of water are pelting the metal ceiling of Olafur Eliasson's studio, a three-story workshop in a former train depot. But whenever Eliasson is around, one is hesitant to come to any hasty conclusions about the weather. In the course of his relatively brief career, the 40-year-old installation artist has become a master at manipulating natural phenomena. He has made waterfalls go uphill, dyed rivers bright green and created entire microclimates indoors. For his biggest commission to date, The Weather Project (2003), Eliasson transformed the massive Turbine Hall at London's Tare Modern into a ...
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