Video: Rainbow panorama from Olafur Eliasson. Color as a guide
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We are used to orienting ourselves by the cardinal points, by directions, by azimuths. And here is the world famous Swedish artist Olafur Eliasson offers something completely different, new. It offers a color-based urban orientation system. He recently implemented it in the Danish city of Aarhus.
Just yesterday we were reminded of Olafur Eliasson when we talked about the Urban Fog installation by Atelier Chanchan, which imitates life in the conditions of London fog and smog. This Swedish artist became famous all over the world for his unusual works, representing spaces with curved planes, filled with color and fog. As a typical example of his work, we can mention the exhibition Feelings are facts, presented last year at an exhibition in Beijing.
Olafur Eliasson loves to work with light and color. Moreover, in his work, he gives them the main, not auxiliary, meaning, he brings them to the fore, looking for new applications and meanings for them. A striking example of this is Eliasson's project “Your Rainbow Panorama”, which is the completion, a kind of crown, of a building recently built in the city of Aarhus in Denmark.
In this project, the author implements a completely innovative idea of urban orientation not by cardinal points and directions, but by colors. Moreover, it is “Your Rainbow Panorama”, installed on the roof of a building that is high enough for a low-rise Aarhus, should become the main landmark of the city.
"Your Rainbow Panorama", as conceived by the author, should divide the city into sectors, named depending on what color, tone or semitone of Olafur Eliasson's installation looks in their direction. And the building with this work of the "colored" Swede can be seen from any point of Aarhus.
Previously, the main landmarks of cities were town halls, cathedrals or market squares. And Olafur Eliasson suggests getting rid of these stereotypes, getting rid of not always unambiguous historical traditions, and giving priority to really eternal things and concepts. For example, color.
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