“From darkness to light, from uncertainty to the security of the known, from loneliness to the company of others.”
Olafur Eliasson once told:
"In this space, time is the main protagonist, is a critical
component or vehicle. The space has different times. You have a sense of space
when you get lost in time. With this work, I am interested in taking all of
your senses: your sight.... The situation is threatening, but develop your
sense of orientation "….
This words describes our past year perfectly and now we can finally
describe our journey which will continue now that we are in the vicinity of the
light.
But before we start telling our amazing,horrible, quietly, loudly, long,
short, fast and also slowly experience. We are going to investigate about the
capturer of moments, the capturer of sensations, the capturer of feelings. Olafur Eliason : Danish artist responsible
for such well-known projects as “the weather project” and “the flood of new
york”.
One of the things I love about this guy is the ability to realize a
sense. Something that architecture search desperately and sadly no often
achieve it.
Funcionamiento
silencioso (2003)
His inspiration for the the Biosphere
II experiment, carried out by a group of scientists during the Eighties and
the beginning of the Nineties in Arizona, USA. The aim was to construct an
enormous greenhouse as an artificial environment for recreating organic life
and drawing conclusions on the habitats on other planets. After years of work,
between 1991 and 1993 they obtained ecological stability as the structure was
sealed with eight researchers living inside.
Where do you think would be the perfect situation or environment to give
an interpretation of this experiment here on earth. The Palacio de Cristal, one
of many examples of this glass and iron architecture spaces wich where created
as greenhouses ( Spaces to create life, without caring of the outside world.
One of the request of this interesting experiment; Biosphere II, testing the
possibility of life inside a container in another planet). Inside the Palacio
de Cristal Eliasson creates an artificial garden via eight works that join
organic and artificial elements to reproduce seemingly self-sufficient
microcosms. Each of the works exhibited refer to elements present in society
and look at the inversion of perspective - the
viewer becomes an object rather than most commonly a subject in works. As a result,
the first receives the experience that creates the second - this change of
mentality is what Eliasson offers viewers of his work.
Funcionamiento silencioso en el
Palacio de Cristal 2003
And just for fun, if you have time and don´t want to see anything more
of Olafur, or maybe you want to see it all, go further and try to find
similarities with his job in something else, as for example a movie; I invite
you to watch Sunshine (2007) directed by Danny Boyle and try to feel and
recreate your eyes with some beautiful images, colours and utopian thoughts in
most of the rooms of the spaceship Icarus II.
Observatory
room of Icarus II
Stay tunned for more of our posts. We have news, Projects, Contest,
Partnerships, inside thought to investigate…That we would like to share.
