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Article: Olafur Eliasson at Tanya Bonakdar.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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For his first New York installation, your strange certainty still kept, Olafur Eliasson created stunningly beautiful light phenomena. The Cologne-based artist constructed an artificial waterfall in the gallery by pumping water up to a suspended rain gutter that had been pricked with tiny holes. The resulting curtain of droplets fell to a shallow, rectangular basin of clear plastic, which was lit from above by a battery of strobe lights. The strobes were set to fire 12 times per second, the fastest rate at which the eye sees movement as momentarily stopped rather than continuous. At that rate, though, the falling droplets were frozen too briefly to form a stable image, ...