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The glacier series, 1999 - neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 1999 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
The glacier series, 1999
neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 1999
Photo: Jens Ziehe
The glacier series, 1999 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 – 1999 - Photo: Christopher Burke
The glacier series, 1999
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 – 1999
Photo: Christopher Burke
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'In [The glacier series], the massive glaciers are seen from the sky, at a distance where we can appreciated their magnitude; in order to see them in their entirety, we need to get away from them. Their incremental movement is a phenomenon we understand by the virtue of scientific knowledge, not of what we can see with the naked eye.'

(Matthew Drutt, 'Olafur Eliasson: A Cultivated View', from Olafur Eliasson: Photographs, 2004, p. 13)