Olafur Eliasson - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, May 14, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    neugerriemschneider, Berlin

  • Exhibited


    Pasadena, The Jamie Residence, Olafur Eliasson, April 21 - May 31, 2005 (another example exhibited); Stockholm, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Here Comes the Sun, August 27 - December 4, 2005 (another example exhibited); Aosta (Italy), Forte di Bard, In Cima alle Stelle. L’Universo tra Arte, Archeologica e Scienza, April 4 - September 2, 2007 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature


    D. Birnbaum, R. Martinez, J. Sans and S. Shapira, eds., Here Comes the Sun, Stockholm, 2005, p. 8 (illustrated); O. Eliasson, ed., Your Engagement Has Consequences: On the Relativity of Your Reality, Baden, 2006, p. 182 (illustrated); In Cima alle Stelle. L’Universo tra Arte, Archeologica e Scienza, Silvana 2007, pp. 250-251 (illustrated); O. Eliasson, ed., Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia, Cologne, 2008, p. 95 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay


    “My primary interest comes from investigations into how the eye functions and how one can use color to explore the difference is what wee see. Our experience of color, light and darkness is of course not a purely biological matter – it also depends on how our vision has been cultivated… That discrepancy is interesting because it contests the idea of rationalized vision that’s sill predominant today; a way of seeing that has ruled out the notion of difference.” (Olafur Eliasson taken from an interview with Philip Ursprung in O. Eliasson, ed., Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia, Cologne, 2008, p. 93)
    In the present lot, Holo Lamp, a circular mirror reflects light from a bulb onto a vertically mounted holographic glass disc. This divides the light into colors of the spectral range. Viewed at eye level, the glass disc is blue; when viewed from above or below, its color changes to others in the spectrum.

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Holo lamp

2005

Stainless steel, holo lens, mirror and light.

78 1/4 x 59 x 31 in. (198.8 x 149.9 x 78.7 cm).

This work is from an edition of 10 and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Estimate
$70,000 - 90,000 

Sold for $80,500

Contemporary Art Part II

14 May 2010
New York