About The Work
Your reversed Berlin sphere is an exemplary project by the critically acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist that is composed of, among other materials, color-effect filter glass and a C-print. The latter depicts the city of Berlin as seen by the artist from his studio, and contains a circular form in the center of the image within which a smaller, spherical version of the same view is inverted. The inverted image completes the cityscape, which would, otherwise, be obstructed. Because of the former, yellows, blues, purples, pinks, and oranges are some of the colors that appear in the circular element as it transitions from color to color depending on factors such as time of day, lighting, and the position of a viewer. Variations in transparency are additionally produced, with the glass acting as a mirror, simultaneously allowing a viewer to see his or her own reflection at the same time as the image inside the circular form underneath the glass.
Courtesy of the Benefit Print Project
About Olafur Elíasson
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Lisa Rosenmeier - 'Reality in my pictures is always more than just a single view'
- Interviews & Features: IFPDA Print Fair Preview - An Interview with BORCH Editions
- Interviews & Features: Art for Earth Day
- Interviews & Features: The Artspace Group Show: Dance
- Art 101: "What I'd Buy This October": Artspace's Advisor Hannah Parker Shares the Artworks in Her Cart
Color-print on Fuji crystal archive II paper (matte) mounted on dibond, color-effect filter glass, glass, wood frame
36.50 x 36.50 in
92.7 x 92.7 cm
This work is signed and numbered.
About The Work
Your reversed Berlin sphere is an exemplary project by the critically acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist that is composed of, among other materials, color-effect filter glass and a C-print. The latter depicts the city of Berlin as seen by the artist from his studio, and contains a circular form in the center of the image within which a smaller, spherical version of the same view is inverted. The inverted image completes the cityscape, which would, otherwise, be obstructed. Because of the former, yellows, blues, purples, pinks, and oranges are some of the colors that appear in the circular element as it transitions from color to color depending on factors such as time of day, lighting, and the position of a viewer. Variations in transparency are additionally produced, with the glass acting as a mirror, simultaneously allowing a viewer to see his or her own reflection at the same time as the image inside the circular form underneath the glass.
Courtesy of the Benefit Print Project
About Olafur Elíasson
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Lisa Rosenmeier - 'Reality in my pictures is always more than just a single view'
- Interviews & Features: IFPDA Print Fair Preview - An Interview with BORCH Editions
- Interviews & Features: Art for Earth Day
- Interviews & Features: The Artspace Group Show: Dance
- Art 101: "What I'd Buy This October": Artspace's Advisor Hannah Parker Shares the Artworks in Her Cart
Published by the Canadian Friends of the Israel Museum in consortium with Benefit Print Project
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