A Sense of Olafur Eliasson
The first thing I came across when looking for information on Olafur Eliasson was a video of him explaining his work, but the first thing that I looked at was his work. Now just looking at his work he has very interesting peices and very visually stimulating work and I can image that they would be very interesting to experience first hand. Just looking at the work for the first time you are engaged and you might think this is cool, this is interesting, and even think this is very entertaining.
See work here: http://www.olafureliasson.net/exhibitions.html
But once you here him speak about his work it makes you want to go back and take a second look.
Once you’re told what his work is about you try and figure out what he’s playing around with. What is it that this peices is exploring? What’s it doing to my perception? How or why am I looking at this the way I am?
After this I started to think “well maybe this isn’t sucessfull work” because I got more out of it after his explanation but then I thought “well then again that’s just my perseption.”
His work is definately worth a look or two. And perception is something I’ve always had a facination about and would love to do more exploratory work on.
For more on his exploration of perception checkout this video: