Light Artist Olafur Eliasson, born Aug 23, 1967

 

The works of artist Olafur Eliasson explore the relevance of art in the world at large. Born in 1967, Eliasson grew up in Iceland and Denmark, where he studied from 1989 to 1995 at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 1995, he moved to Berlin and founded Studio Olafur Eliasson, which today comprises a large team of craftsmen, architects, archivists, researchers, administrators, cooks, programmers, art historians, and specialised technicians. Eliasson lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin.
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When Olafur Elisasson was born in 1967, Mel and Dorothy Tanner, the founders of Lumonics, had already begun to work with light, beginning with geometric shapes such as cubes and columns.

 

“I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.” 

 

“My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.” 

 

Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and color are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes. 

 

 

 

“Light has an evident, functional and aesthetic impact on our lives.”

 

 

“The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork. I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.”