Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson held the solo exhibition ”In Real Life ” at Tate Modern in London from July 11th,2019 -January 5th, 2020.
Olafur Eliasson combines technology and natural elements such as light, water and temperature to create a large installation art that conveys his concern for society and the environment. This "In Real Life" exhibition, Eliasson explores social issues such as climate change, energy, and immigration, and wants to know what impact an artist can bring to society and the environment.
The "In Real Life" exhibition has exhibited more than 40 works, some of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. The large installation art "Waterfall" that was previously exhibited in Manhattan New York and the Versailles Gardens in France, can also be seen outside the Tate Modern. Three different heights of the scaffolding, the falling water surface forms a waterfall. Eliasson explores the natural environment with artificial waterfalls. He thinks that the natural environment of today's world has become very humanized and hope people can think about how humans should develop in the future.
Entering the museum is also brilliant, the new works such as "In Real Life" and "Colour Experiment No. 81". The work "Colour Experiment No. 81" Eliasson collected 30 paintings by Joseph Mallord William Turner, selected some of the colors on the paintings, asked chemists to analyze the color pigments, used the system to calculate, and developed the glossy colors, and then applied the calculation results to the hollow circular canvas. Create a seemingly endless color ring. Another interesting interactive work, "Your Uncertainty Shadow", projects a spotlight on a white wall. When people pass by, they see their own shadows of different colors on the wall. Eliasson said that these shadows symbolize the distance between people in real life, and thus observe whether people are willing to contact others through the interaction of shadows.
The large-scale sunset "The Weather Project" that hangs in Tate Modern in 2003 also returned this year. Using a semicircular screen, mirror ceiling, and some smoke to create a realistic sunset scene, people lie on the floor of the exhibition hall, as if bathing in the sunset, looking up and seeing themselves from the mirror, which makes people the illusion and spatial disorder. No wonder is the most impressive classic.
Olafur Eliasson's famous works also include "Your Spiral View". Multiple steel plates form an 8-meter spiral aisle. These steel plates are intertwined. When people walk into the aisle, they can look themselves from several broken mirrors. Every step, the broken mirror will map out different changes, just like inside a kaleidoscope. Eliasson wants people to rethink the way and angle when looking at things with their eyes. The work "Big Bang Fountain", the center of a table will automatically spray water column every once in a while. Automatically flashing the flash and taking pictures of the moment when the water is sprayed, capturing the type of activity of the water column as a short sculpture. "Your Blind Passenger", the artist puts different colors of smoke in a long confined space, and people walked into as they walked into the fog and couldn't see the surrounding scenery. Every section people walked, the smoke would change color, leaving the visitors with a curious and frightening experience. "Beauty", set up water through the tube and spray tiny water droplets became a mist wall in a dim space, project it with a spotlight, and everyone passing by can see the rainbow, the position and angle of viewing are different, the rainbow looks different.
Eliasson has a studio in Iceland with a restaurant Marshall Restaurant + Bar downstairs, which partnered with Eliasson to launch the experimental restaurant SOE Kitchen 101 in 2018. During the exhibition at Tate Modern, Terrace Bar cooperation with the SOE Kitchen team, develop a series of vegetarian dishes made from sustainable, seasonal, mostly organic ingredients.
Olafur Eliasson In Real Life
Date: 11 July 2019 – 5 January 2020
Venue: Tate Modern
Price: £18
Figure 1：In real life, 2019 Photo: Jens Ziehe © Studio Olafur Eliasson GmbH
Figure 2 left top：：Tree of Codes opens at Opera Bastille! With studiowaynemcgregor and the balletoperadeparis. Courtesy of studioolafureliasson Instagram page
Figure 2 right top：The weather project, 2003 Tate Modern, London, 2003 Photo: Tate Photography (Andrew Dunkley & Marcus Leith) © Studio Olafur Eliasson GmbH
Figure 2 left bottom：Olafur Eliasson, Courtesy of studioolafureliasson Instagram page
Figure 2 middle：Your uncertain shadow (colour), 2010 The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna, 2015 Photo: Anders Sune Berg © Studio Olafur Eliasson GmbH
Figure 2 right bottom：Beauty, 1993 Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 Photo: Anders Sune Berg © Studio Olafur Eliasson GmbH
