Olafur Eliasson

São Paulo

Danish artist Olafur Eliasson currently shows his work in Brazil for the first time. A series of new works and two large installations by the artist are shown in parallel at the Galpão Fortes Vilaça and at Galeria Luisa Strina.

Eliasson’s work deals with sensory and perceptual questions, seeking to reinforce the idea that we all co-­‐produce the world in which we live. The spectator, therefore, is never passive, but always takes part in the artwork’s process of signification.

At Galpão Fortes Vilaça, the visitor is welcomed by an environment defined by light, darkness and movement, where the artworks point to a world “which is not found, but made.” In Your uncertain shadow, one comes upon a large white wall – as the viewer crosses the space, the walls come to life with a series of shadows in movement. The shadows are superimposed in a scale of tones extending from gray to black, creating a sort of choreography.

At Galeria Luisa Strina, the spectator is invited to engage with experimental objects that are the result of the artist’s engagement with scientific instruments, works that the architecture theorist Sanford Kwinter has called “perceiving machines.” In the artwork that lends the exhibition its title, Your orbit perspective, a slowly rotating semicircle, projected onto a screen, appears to tilt as it rotates. This three­‐dimensional effect generates a neurological stimulus that provides an altered experience of space.

Olafur Eliasson

Galeria Fortes Vilaça
April 3 – May 25, 2013
Rua James Holland, 71
Barra Funda, 01138-­‐000
São Paulo
Brazil
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Galeria Luisa Strina
April 3 – May 4, 2013
Rua Padre João Manuel, 755 loja 2
Cerqueira César, 01411-­‐001
São Paulo
Brazil
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