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Fivefold eye, 2000

looking in

pentagon

reflection

sphere

three dimensionality

compositional layers

Einar Thorsteinn

entanglement

fivefold symmetry

  • looking in
  • pentagon
  • reflection
  • sphere
  • three dimensionality
  • compositional layers
  • Einar Thorsteinn
  • entanglement
  • fivefold symmetry

A semi-sphere made of woven and welded bands of steel, with a 30-cm-wide hole at its apex, is placed on a mirror, so that the "other" half of the sphere appears in the mirror.

 

Details
Materials
Stainless steel, glass mirror
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Artist's books
  • Contact is content, 2014
Exhibition catalogues
  • Your Lighthouse: Works with Light 1991–2004, 2004
  • Chaque matin je me sens différent, chaque soir je me sens le même, 2002
Monographs
  • Olafur Eliasson: Experience, 2018
Solo shows
  • Your only real thing is time, 2001
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