TAKE YOUR TIME

An Olafur Eliasson retrospective is opening at both the MoMA and PS1 this Sunday, April 20. In my opinion, the exhibits are just in time. As the thoughtful recent NY times article states, Eliasson's work is refreshing in a market swamped with super-glue junk amalgamations. Eliasson produces real magic, real communal fascination and wonder. Like a modern day James Turrell, Eliasson plays with light and color, space and air, smoke and mirrors. He twists our perceptions and alters our assumptions about art by evoking the wide, mysterious atmosphere of his homelands - Denmark, Iceland and Berlin. View more photos here from the NY Times and some multimedia stuff from the exhibition's previous home at the San Francisco MoMA.