Olafur Eliasson’s, One-Way Colour Tunnel (Photo: Ian Reeves, courtesy SFMOMA)

For Take Your Time, a major new exhibition that opened September 8 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the internationally-celebrated artist Olafur Eliasson changed out the gallery lights, put mirrors on the ceilings, created a small fog bank, filled a room with a pool of water, and turned a skywalk into a trippy disco kaleidoscope, all in an effort to tinker with the way we experience space and light, and how we navigate the world. Open through February, the exhibition travels to New York’s Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1 in April, then to the Dallas Museum of Art in November 2008.

Eliason became famous as an artist in 2003, when 2 million people visited The Weather Project, a giant installation at London’s Tate Modern that created an artificial sun from 200 yellow sodium lamps.

But, explains SFMOMA curator Madeleine Grynsztejn, Eliasson’s work is never mere special effects. Like a DIY guru morphed into an international art star, Eliasson likes to show the mechanisms behind his artwork. “The revelation of his process is part and parcel of the work,” says Grynsztejn. “It’s equal parts ‘wow’ and ‘a-ha.’”

Read full article (Wired, September 7, 2007)
The Guardian on Take Your Time
Take Your Time at SFMOMA

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