Room for one colour • Artwork • Studio Olafur Eliasson

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Room for one colour, 1997 - Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence – 2022 - Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio. Courtesy Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence — Room for one colour, 1997
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence – 2022
Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio. Courtesy Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Room for one colour, 1997 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg — Room for one colour, 1997
Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015
Photo: Anders Sune Berg

Room for one colour, 1997 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg — Room for one colour, 1997
Tate Modern, London – 2019
Photo: Anders Sune Berg

Room for one colour, 1997 - Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe — Room for one colour, 1997
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, 2005
Photo: Jens Ziehe

Room for one color - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson — Room for one color
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson

Room for one colour, 1997 - PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, 2011 - Photo: Dmitry Baranov — Room for one colour, 1997
PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, 2011
Photo: Dmitry Baranov

Room for one colour, 1997 - Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 2000 - Photo: Koinegg — Room for one colour, 1997
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 2000
Photo: Koinegg

Room for one colour, 1997 - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 2004 - Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn — Room for one colour, 1997
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 2004
Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn

Room for one colour, 1997 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art — Room for one colour, 1997
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007
Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Room for one colour, 1997 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 - Photo: Franz Warmhof — Room for one colour, 1997
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001
Photo: Franz Warmhof

Room for one colour, 1997 - Danish Pavilion, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2003 - Photo: Giorgio Boato — Room for one colour, 1997
Danish Pavilion, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2003
Photo: Giorgio Boato

Room for one colour, 1997 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson — Room for one colour, 1997
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson

Room for one colour, 1997 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Kioku Keizo / Courtesy of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa — Room for one colour, 1997
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Kioku Keizo / Courtesy of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Room for one colour, 1997 - Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke — Room for one colour, 1997
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008
Photo: Christopher Burke

Room for one colour, 1997 - Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, 2005 - Photo: Terje Östling — Room for one colour, 1997
Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, 2005
Photo: Terje Östling

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Room for one colour, 1997

Monofrequency lights mounted to the ceiling of a white room emit a narrow range of yellow light, reducing visitors’ color perception to shades of yellow and black. The longer the visitors stay in the space, the more they begin to perceive subtle color distinctions and to correct for the yellowish lighting. Upon leaving,they momentarily perceive a bluish afterimage.

Artwork details
Title	Room for one colour
Year	1997
Materials	Monofrequency lamps

Related
Artist's books	Your Engagement Has Consequences; On the Relativity of Your Reality, 2006
Books	Leggere è respirare, è divenire. Scritti di Olafur Eliasson, 2021
Essays	Some Ideas About Color, 2006 457 Words on Colour, 2001
Exhibition catalogues	Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo, 2022 Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life, 2019 Reality machines, 2015 Innen Stadt Außen, 2010 Your Chance Encounter, 2010 La naturalesa de les coses / La naturaleza de las cosas / The Nature of Things, 2008 Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, 2007 Colour Memory and Other Informal Shadows, 2004 Minding the World, 2004 Your Lighthouse: Works with Light 1991–2004, 2004 Surroundings Surrounded: Essays on Space and Science, 2001
Interviews	The Whys and Hows of My Art Making, 2018
Monographs	Olafur Eliasson: Experience, 2018 Olafur Eliasson, 2013 Det indre af det ydre, 2008 Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia, 2008 Olafur Eliasson, 2002
Solo shows	Nel tuo tempo, 2022 Olafur Eliasson: In real life, 2020 Olafur Eliasson: In real life, 2019 Olafur Eliasson: Verklighetsmaskiner, 2015 We have never been disembodied, 2015 Olafur Eliasson: Your emotional future, 2011 Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2009 Your chance encounter, 2009 Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2009 Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2008 Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2008 Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2007-2008 The light setup, 2005 The light setup, 2005 Your lighthouse: Works with light 1991 - 2004, 2004 Colour memory and other informal shadows, 2004 The Blind Pavilion, 2003 Surroundings surrounded, 2001 Surroundings surrounded, 2000

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