Olafur Eliasson. Nel tuo tempo

From the courtyard, the route continues inside the building. In the first three rooms of the Piano Nobile Eliasson confronts the windows of the building, playing between reality and representation, presence and absence, in an alternation of lights, colors and shadows. By proposing solutions that appear similar to theatrical sets or film sets, the artist invites us to perceive architecture in a new way, destabilizing its traditional and consolidated understanding.

Two works in the exhibition recall the theme of the circle and ellipse introduced in the courtyard. How do we live together (2019) consists of a large metal arch that diagonally invades the space of a room where the ceiling is covered with a mirrored surface. Through an effect of illusion typical of Eliasson, used in famous works such as The weather project (2003) at the Tate Modern, the arch doubles becoming a circle, a sort of ring that unites the real space with the unreal. The installation Solar compression (2016) instead consists of a suspended circular disk, mirroring on both sides, in constant movement, emanating from its interior a yellow light that floods the environment. That same light is the basis of the installation Room for one color (1997) where in a totally empty space the perception of the spectators is altered by immersion in the light of mono-frequency lamps which transform all colors into shades of grey, yellow and black, however accentuating the perception of details by the spectators.

Furthermore, along the way, we come across an iconic work of Eliasson's career such as Beauty (1993). The installation places us in front of a spectacular rainbow in which beams of white light are broken down into the colors of the visible spectrum through a curtain of fog. This apparition is created by the light projected, refracted and reflected by the drops of water in which the public is invited to immerse themselves.

Firefly double-polyhedron sphere experiment (2020), a large polyhedron of green, orange, yellow, cyan and pink colored glass that arises from the artist's interest in the themes of geometry and light. In the same room, the work dialogues with Color spectrum kaleidoscope (2003), a large hexagonal kaleidoscope made of dichromatic mirrors of various colours.

The exhibition continues in the spaces of the Strozzina through works that continue Eliasson's reflection on the perception and use of the moiré effect. Fivefold dodecahedron lamp (2006) consists of a dodecahedron containing a highly reflective glass tetrahedron, while Eye see you (2006) creates subtle moiré effects based on the position and movement of each visitor. Furthermore, in the City plan series (2018) seven urban plants are traced back to geometric shapes on mirrors that reflect seven different local newspapers replaced daily, to re-present considerations on time, the leitmotif of the exhibition.

Presented to the public for the first time is Your view matter (2022), a new work by the artist that uses VR (Virtual Reality) technology to experience human perception in digital space. Wearing a special viewer, the public enters a digital world to explore, made up of six different virtual spaces.

Biography
Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (1967) works in sculpture, painting, photography, video, installation and digital media. His art is driven by his interest in perception, movement, lived experience, his own feelings and those of the community. His practice is not limited to the confines of museums and galleries and involves the public through architectural projects, interventions in public spaces, actions of artistic, social and environmental education.

Since 1997 his wide-ranging solo exhibitions have been hosted in major museums around the world. He represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003; in the same year he presented The weather project, a site specific installation for the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London, visited by more than two million people. In 2014, the Contact exhibition opened the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. The 2015 exhibition Verklighetsmaskiner (Reality machines) became the most visited exhibition of a living artist ever at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. In 2016 Olafur Eliasson carried out a series of interventions for the palace and gardens of Versailles and set up two major exhibitions at the Long Museum in Shanghai and at the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul. Reality projector, a site-specific installation for the Marciano Foundation in Los Angeles, was inaugurated in March 2018, the same month as The unspeakable openness of things, a solo exhibition at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing. In 2019, an extensive retrospective of Eliasson's artistic practice over the past twenty-five years was held at the Tate Modern In real life, which in 2020 traveled to the Guggenheim in Bilbao. In 2020, Olafur Eliasson: Symbiotic Seeing at the Kunsthaus Zürich and Sometimes the river is the bridge at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art were held. For the 2021 Life exhibition, Olafur Eliasson removed the glass façade of the Fondation Beyeler in Basel and created an installation where the bright green water of a pond has been diverted into the museum's galleries, along with a myriad of plants, ducks and spiders.

Located in Berlin, Studio Olafur Eliasson brings together a large group of craftsmen, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, cooks, art historians and specialized technicians.