Video: São Paulo microscope - new work by Olafur Eliasson
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The security rooms of modern buildings have monitors that display images from different surveillance cameras located in this facility. And here is the artist Olafur Eliasson in my new job Microscope to Sao Paulo achieved a similar effect without the use of electronic technology, only mirrors.
Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is well known to regular readers of our site for his works, in which he experiments with space, with its perception by people, with the laws of physics, optical illusions and other interesting things. Several of his works can be cited as an example. For example, the house inside the book "Your House", the rainbow panorama in the city of Aarhus or the multi-colored fog of the installation "Feelings are facts".
One of the latest such experiments with space by Olafur Eliasson is the work "Microscope to Sao Paulo", presented at the artist's solo exhibition as part of the SESC_Videobrasil contemporary art festival.
The installation "Microscope to Sao Paulo" shows viewers, who are inside one of the premises of the Pinacoteca do Estanda art gallery in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, much of what is happening in other areas of the building and outside.
"Microscope to Sao Paulo" is a huge kaleidoscope, into which, through a system of mirrors, many images from dozens of different locations of the Pinacoteca do Estanda Museum and its surroundings flock. This kaleidoscope gives viewers a complete picture of what is happening around, in places inaccessible to their eyes. Thanks to this installation, the huge building of the museum "narrows" to a small room, where all people and objects are in the line of sight.
However, the installation "Microscope to Sao Paulo" itself cannot be called small. It goes as an inverted pyramid from the floor of the hall, where it is located, to its ceiling, "breaks through" the ceiling and goes out onto the roof.
Moreover, viewers can visit both the outside of Olafur Eliasson's installation "Microscope to Sao Paulo", and inside it - a bridge passes through it, accessible to every visitor of the exhibition.
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