Olafur Eliasson, is a Danish artist and sculptor, coming from an Icelandic’s family. His works include photography and sculptor but he is
best known for his “installation art”. Eliasson creates spectacular installations, with water, light, and color, in indoor and outdoor
spaces. His works can be a project of four installations located in 4 different sites in a city, running at the same times as the work “NYC waterfalls”, (or an installation in the River of Stockholm, or finally, a single monumental structure in a public space. His installations are built for a particular period of time and then are taken down.
The aim in his works is to create scenes which have the power to seduce and stimulates viewer reaction, and analyses in a second time people behavior in front of his installations. The artist watches spectators and studies their responses in a search for new ways of surprising them, of heightening their perceptions. Eliasson has developed this particular interest in human being, analyzing human behavior and perception since his was studying to Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen ( from1989 to 1995).
The one of his most spectacular works can be the NYC waterfalls. In this project Olafur Eliasson wanted to draw attention to the power and
potential scarcity of NYC’s seemingly limitless natural resource: “Here in New york, water is everywhere. We take the water for granted”, Eliasson recently stated in an interview “I want to suggest – now, it’s not about the land, now it’s about what’s between the land “.For this installation Olafur Eliasson has built 4 cascades located in four different sites in New York : Pier 35, under Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Piers and Governor’s Island, using metals scaffolds to build the structure and pump to carry water up to a trough, where approximately 35,000 gallons will
cascade down.
Other interesting Olafur Eliasson works are firstly “Reserved Waterfall” in 1998 (Water, pump,basins, scaffolding, The Wanas Foundation, Sweden) ; “Ice Pavillon” 1998 (steel water, sprinklerH250 cm, diameter 300 cm, installation, Kjarvaslstadir Museum, Reykjavik); and finally Olafur Eliasson,” Green River”, 1998( Green color,water, realisation, Stockholm,2000).
“Reserved Waterfall” in 1998
” Green River”, 1998
“Ice Pavillon” 1998
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