Unspoken Spaces: Studio Olafur Eliasson

ISBN-13: 9780500343135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 416 str.

Olafur Eliasson

Opis

Unspoken Spaces is the first major book on Olafur Eliasson's architectural projects and works in public spaces around the globe. The book explores, often in Eliasson's own words, the artist's driving interest in finding visionary shapes to represent abstract ideas, and presents an extraordinary visual journey through spheres, tunnels, towers, walkways and archways, as well as pavilions and larger buildings realized by Eliasson and his studio since the late 1990s. Eight essays by writers across a variety of fields--from geologists and historians of art and science to architects, artists and philosophers--give further insight into the work of Olafur Eliasson. Works inUnspoken Spaces range from small-scale experiments to largescale projects in the public realm, among them striking buildings such as the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 in London (with Kjetil Thorsen), Your rainbow panorama (2006-2011) in Aarhus, Denmark, the crystalline facades for Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik (2005-11), and Cirkelbroen (The circle bridge) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015. Each work is presented with vivid photographs and accessible in-depth project descriptions as well as Eliasson's more personal statements. Unspoken Spaces includes a range of Eliasson's creations--"reality machines," as he calls them--many of which have never appeared in print. A section of the book explores unrealized and unfinished projects. The contributing writers are Alex Coles, Lorraine Daston, Carol Diehl, Eric Ellingsen, Timothy Morton, Molly Nesbit & Minik Rosing

Recenzje

'It seems incredible that such a staggeringly inventive body of work could be contained, much less summarised, in one tome, but 'Unspoken Spaces' succeeds in being both thorough and highly accessible' - Aesthetica

Spis treści

Olafur Eliasson: Preface - Projects and Artist's Statements (c. 55 projects and 35 statements) - Carol Diehl and Terry Perk: Your Geometric Engagement - Lorraine Daston: Dazzled - Alex Coles: The Art-Architecture Ping Pong - Eric Ellingsen: Now Memory Molly Nesbit: An Entry for Olafur Eliasson's Parliament of Reality - Minik Rosing: Extravagant Parsimony: A Study From Nature - Caroline Jones: Users in the Field Timothy Morton: From Things Flows What We Call Time - Project Documentation Biography

O autorze

Olafur Eliasson, born 1967 in Copenhagen. He lives and works in Berlin since 1995. Since 2009 Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts.