Lot 423
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OLAFUR ELIASSON | Color spectrum kaleidoscope

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Olafur Eliasson
  • Color spectrum kaleidoscope
  • color effect filterglass, stainless steel connection
  • 72 1/2 by 36 by 79 in. 184.2 by 91.4 by 200.7 cm.
  • Executed in 2003.

Provenance

neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Acquired from the above by David Teiger in July 2003

Exhibited

Venice, Danish Pavillion, 50th Biennale di Venizia, Olafur Eliasson: The Blind Pavillion, June - November 2003
New York, Deitch Projects, The Garden Party, March - April 2006
New York, MoMA PS1, Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, April - June 2008, pl. 177, illustrated in color

Literature

Daniel Kunitz, "Olafur Eliasson: Immersing the Viewer in Light," New York Sun, 21 April 2008

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. The texture of the wooden construction is natural and consistent to the artist's choice of medium. There is a minor imperfection within one of the glass filter elements towards the back of the sculpture. The glass filter elements show signs of wear and handling, including fingerprint smudges and light dust accumulations throughout. The steel armature contains faint surface imperfections throughout and shows signs of wear and aging.
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Catalogue Note

"Eliasson attempts to show the inside and outside of the body simultaneously. The kaleidoscopes, the tunnel pieces, and The drop factory demonstrate this possibility as well as its cost - fracturation of the self. The body, to recycle Lacan's phrase, is scattered into bits and pieces. It holds together quite miraculously, not in spite of its distinction from but because of its suturing to space." Mieke Ball "Light Politics," in Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, 2008, p. 176