INS 023 Riverbed Ólafur Elíasson 2014
Header image:
Louisiana Museum
of Modern Art, Humlebæk
© Anders Sune Berg
The central work in the exhibition, which is made specifically for the museum, is based on the unique connection between nature, architecture and art that characterizes Louisiana. Eliasson’s work transforms the place in one sweeping artistic move: a rocky riverbed taking up the museum’s entire South Wing. A surface of rocks covers the floors as the bed for a stream of water winding through the galleries.
Eliasson’s landscape inserts a new pattern of movement into the museum, where it is the audience’s movement through the landscape that is staged, not the artist’s. This focus on the visitor and bodily movement through space is where Louisiana’s identity as a place and Eliasson’s practice as an artist intersect.
© Ólafur Elíasson
© Anders Sune Berg
© Anders Sune Berg
© Iwan Baan
© Iwan Baan
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INS 023 Riverbed Ólafur Elíasson 2014
Header image: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
© Anders Sune Berg
Text: Louisiana Museum | e-flux
The central work in the exhibition, which is made specifically for the museum, is based on the unique connection between nature, architecture and art that characterizes Louisiana. Eliasson’s work transforms the place in one sweeping artistic move: a rocky riverbed taking up the museum’s entire South Wing. A surface of rocks covers the floors as the bed for a stream of water winding through the galleries.
Eliasson’s landscape inserts a new pattern of movement into the museum, where it is the audience’s movement through the landscape that is staged, not the artist’s. This focus on the visitor and bodily movement through space is where Louisiana’s identity as a place and Eliasson’s practice as an artist intersect.
© Ólafur Elíasson
© Anders Sune Berg
© Anders Sune Berg
© Iwan Baan
© Iwan Baan
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