Breaking the Wall to the Future
Description
Olafur Eliasson is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work The New York Times has called "a model for future art." In this 2010 video lecture from the Falling Walls Conference, Eliasson demonstrates how art, melding emotions with the mechanics of perception, reveals new frontiers in the exploration of time, space, and society. One of the youngest artists to receive a solo exhibition in New York's Museum of Modern Art, this Danish-Icelandic prodigy turned a former brewery in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin into Studio Olafur Eliasson, where he employs more than 30 people. He built artificial waterfalls in New York's East River; dyed rivers green in Los Angeles, Stockholm, and Tokyo; staged a sunset in the huge Turbine Hall of Tate Modern; conceived the complex geometric principle for the façades of Harpa concert hall and conference center in Reykjavik; and designed a ship-shaped pedestrian bridge for Copenhagen's Christianshavns Kanal.
Runtime
15 min
Subjects
- Art criticism (74)
- Art (784)
- Visual literacy (198)
- Visual communication (69)
- Mass media and the arts (74)
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Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c2010
Database
Films on Demand
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