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Article: Special effects; Olafur Eliasson brings his versions of natural phenomena to the ICA.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- February 6, 2001
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Five days before the opening of Olafur Eliasson's first U.S. museum exhibit, the artist was unsure if Boston fire officials would let him show his gas jet ring. The piece conformed to standards in Europe but not here. Eliasson, though, didn't seem particularly worried.
Sitting upstairs at the Institute of Contemporary Art, the pony-tailed, Scandinavian artist, speaking with a slight accent but with a remarkable grasp of the complex English terms, said that if he couldn't obtain permission to show the piece, he would exhibit an older piece.
"A quite nice piece," he said, without a trace of arrogance, and then began to draw as he explained how the ...