In is down, down is front

Thursday, May 25, 2006


I went to the Olafur Eliasson exhibit at the Tanya Bonakdar gallery in Chelsea today. He was the artist who did the expansive Weather Project at the Tate Modern in London. And here in New York I was amazed by the beauty - both physically and conceptually - of his experimentation with light and wave forms and optics in general. "The inverted mirror sphere" was this amazing chandalier inspired by the geodisiac architect Buckminster Fuller made of steel tubes, and steel and mirror plates.


The other piece that practically made me wet myself was "your negotiable panorama," which sported a circular pool of water in a circular room. I have no idea how he managed to just get that thin line to reflect in a circle around the room, but when you step over the bridge to get into the space, it sets off a ripple in the pool, which then reflects on the wall panorama. *Drool*

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