With images that suggest a modern day Caspar David Friedrich, sculptor, installation artist and photographer Olafur Eliasson recreates in elegant forms the extremes of the landscape and the atmospheric conditions of his native Denmark, resulting in a kind of techno-Romanticism. Now based in Berlin, Eliasson rebuilds in the gallery fragments of a faraway land: icebergs at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'windmills' at the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark. For Eliasson, immaterial sensations such as temperature, smell, taste, air and magnetic waves become sculptural elements. A simple circular cut in the ceiling of a gallery in Los Angeles, for example, recreates the feeling of the weak Scandinavian sun, and becomes a kind of giant sun-clock reminiscent of both Gordon Matta-Clark's architectural cut-outs and the oculus of the Pantheon. In her survey, curator Madeleine Grynsztejn examines the unique position of the artist, overlapping technological and artistic innovation in the creation of his art. Critic and curator Daniel Birnbaum discusses with the artist the role of location and the immediate environment in both his gallery (indoor) and remote-site (outdoor) work. Architectural theorist Michael Speaks looks in his Focus at the work Green river (1998) particularly in relation to filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni's 1964 film, Red Desert. The artist has selected an extract from Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution (1907) dealing with our subjective, visual response to nature, a theme central also in the artist's own work. Olafur Eliasson's writings include an essay on that most banal of topics, the weather, and an open letter entitled 'Dear Everybody' addressed to the viewers.

Olafur Eliasson (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Madeleine Grynsztejn

Michael Speaks

Daniel Birnbaum

Olafur Eliasson

Arts & Photography

Phaidon Press

Ever since the Guggenheim Museum put Bilbao in the international spotlight, cities everywhere have been seeking to etch themselves into the world map with a sophisticated campaign and a carefully selected image. This book takes a critical and in-depth look at City Branding through projects conceived of by the latest generation of Dutch designers.

City Branding: Image Building & Building Images

Berci Florian

Hans Mommaas

Koen van Synghel

Architecture

NAi Publishers

Log 62

Fernanda Canales

Manuel Álvarez Diestro

Lachlan Summers

Mariana Alves Barbosa

Carlos Eduardo Binato de Castro & Suelen Camerin

Jaime Solares Carmona

Frederico Costa & Jaime Solares Carmona

Sérgio Ferro

Carla Juaçaba

Guido Alejo Mamani

Felipe Mesa & Federico Mesa

José Luis Uribe Ortiz

Florencia Rodríguez

Marina Waisman

Mariana Wilderom

Anyone Corporation

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