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Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson.

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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TAKE YOUR TIME: OLAFUR ELIASSON

Curated by Roxana Marcoci and Klaus Biesenbach, Museum of Modern Art and PSI Contemporary Art Center, New York

Take your time is a grand staging of 38 Olafur Eliasson sculptures and installations at the Museum of Modern Art and PSI Contemporary Art Center in New York. Organized in conjunction with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the show brings to a North American audience a large selection of the Danish-Icelandic artist's immersive artworks, which reference nature, weather, perception and the physiological experience of viewing art. These aspects of his work link him to earlier artists such as Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson and Robert Irwin. However, unlike those artists, who primarily made discreet objects and site-specific conceptual artworks, Eliasson acts as the director of a large group of assistants who collectively create multimedia projects for...

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