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In process: Sculpting fivefold symmetry #EliassonFLV

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To track the sun is to track yourself - #EliassonFLV

The sun tracker redirects sunlight onto a fixed point by adjusting a mirror in concert with the ‘movement’ of the sun across the sky.

The apparatus belongs to a family of optical devices known formally as heliostats – a word deriving from Greek roots that mean stationary sun.

To track the sun is to track yourself, because the sun tracker locates the centre of your orbital ellipse, giving your position right now and rendering visible your path. The reflexive potential lies in understanding that we are in a way the mirrors, circulating, tracking, spinning in our Keplerian ellipses. You and I are not the centre of the universe, but in fact spinning in altruistic space.

Olafur Eliasson
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This meteorite just landed in the studio. Soon on its way to Paris.

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Soon: Exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

My exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton addresses that which lies at the edge of our senses and knowledge, of our imagination and our expectations. It’s about the horizon that divides, for each of us, the known from the unknown.

Olafur Eliasson
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Objects are always a little bit out of phase with themselves and with one another... they are 'internally' out of phase with themselves, and this is what produces time and the possibility that they can interact. Timothy Morton, philosopher

Ice Watch, 2014 - City Hall Square, Copenhagen 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg

Ice Watch - A project by Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing

Twelve large blocks of inland ice, cast off from the Greenland ice sheet, were collected from a fjord outside Nuuk and shipped to Copenhagen. Presented in a clock formation in City Hall Square, from 26 to 29 October 2014, Ice Watch marked the publication of the UN IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change. The total weight of the ice – 100 tonnes – corresponds to the amount of inland ice melting every hundredth of a second, a rate that will only increase if global warming continues.
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Ice Watch, 2014 - City Hall Square, Copenhagen 2014 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
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Out now: TYT Vol. 6: How to Make the Best Art School in the World - A visual representation of 5 years of the Institut für Raumexperimente

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Freisetzung by Fabian Knecht - part of Festival of Future Nows at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

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Now: Celebrating 5 years of the Institut für Raumexperimente - Festival of Future Nows at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Continues until Saturday 1 November

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Now: Festival of Future Nows opens tonight at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Everyone is invited!

Global cooling lamp, 2006 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Art Basel, Switzerland, 2006 - Photo: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Feature: The heat is on

Global cooling lamp, 2006 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Art Basel, Switzerland, 2006 - Photo: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Two hot air columns, 2005 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2005 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Hot air scanner, 1999 - Photo: Eric Balle Poulsen
Heat pavilion, 2000 - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2000
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Now: Olafur Eliasson at FIAC, Paris, 23 - 26 October, 2014

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The very large ice floor, 1998

Feature: From the melting archive

The glacierhouse effect versus the greenhouse effect, 2005 - Private collection, Santa Fe, 2006 – 2005 - Photo: Andrew Gellatly
The glacierhouse effect versus the greenhouse effect, 2005 - Private collection, Santa Fe, 2006 – 2005 - Photo: Andrew Gellatly
The glacierhouse effect versus the greenhouse effect, 2005 - Private collection, Santa Fe, 2006 – 2005 - Photo: Andrew Gellatly
Eisfenster, 1998 - Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, 1998 - Photo: Hans-Christian Schink
Sketch for Eisfenster, 1998
Model room, 2003

Feature: New film of Model room, 2003, at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2014

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Now: Extinction Marathon at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, 18 - 19 October 2014

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Soon: Extinction Marathon 18 - 19 October 2014, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London
Poster by Olafur Eliasson

Work in progress at Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2014

Now: Schools of movement sphere, 2014, on view at Frieze London, 15-18 October 2014

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Now: Model room, 2003, as part of Riverbed at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
On view until 4 January 2015

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Model for a timeless garden, 2011 – A film by Tomas Gislason

Now: Model for a timeless garden, 2011, part of Light Show at Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Until 8 February 2015

Trust, confidence, intuition: Contact is Content – A film by SHIMURAbros

Feature: Olafur Eliasson - Trust, Confidence, Intuition: Contact Is Content, 2014
A film by SHIMURAbros

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Now: Sensing the Future - László Moholy-Nagy, the Media and the Arts
Group exhibition at Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin. On view until 12 January 2015

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