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Navigation star for utopia, 2022 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2022 - Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Navigation star for utopia, 2022
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2022
Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Navigation star for utopia, 2022 - Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – 2022 - Photo: Agostino Osio
Navigation star for utopia, 2022
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Navigation star for utopia, 2022 - Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – 2022 - Photo: Agostino Osio
Navigation star for utopia, 2022
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Navigation star for utopia, 2022 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2022 - Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Navigation star for utopia, 2022
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2022
Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Navigation star for utopia, 2022 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2022 - Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
Navigation star for utopia, 2022
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2022
Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul
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This hanging artwork reflects Eliasson’s long artistic interest in scientific instruments and navigation. Reminiscent of a nautical device or a compass rose, the work is composed of three broad rings that contain a framework cube pierced at its corners by the points of a star. The flat, stainless-steel rings – painted red, green,  and black – together describe the volume of a sphere, while curved panes of green and red handblown glass act as the sphere’s skin. Each vertex of the cube is intersected by a ray of the star, which extends out from the core. LEDs incorporated into the frame illuminate the centre of the star and radiate out to cast patterned shadows onto the surroundings.

Artwork details

Title

Navigation star for utopia

Year

2022

Materials

Stainless steel, wood (Oak), coloured glass (green, red), brass, paint (black, green, red), LED lights (white)