ART & DESIGN

Olafur Eliasson

by W Magazine

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With his monumental conceptual pieces—reverse waterfalls, indoor sunsets, rivers dyed green—Olafur Eliasson is creating art that mesmerizes critics and crowds alike.

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One-way Colour Tunnel [working title], 2007, site-specific sculpture for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (digital rendering of interior view).

© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin

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Photographs: Gareth McConnell

Olafur Eliasson behind his Berlin studio.

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Beauty, 1993, installation view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin

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Your Colour Memory, 2004, wooden panels, stainless steel, fluorescent tubes, colored filter foil, electric supply net, backlight foil, black theater foil (installation view, 2000).

© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin

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Reversed Waterfall, 1998, water, metal, wood. foil, pump.

© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin

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Ice Pavilion, 1998, steel, sprinkler, water.

© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin

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La Situazione Antispettiva (The Antispective Situation), 2003, stainless steel.

© Olafur Eliasson/courtesy of Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin