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Beauty, 1993 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Beauty, 1993 - Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence – 2022 - Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio
Beauty, 1993 - Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence – 2022 - Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio
Beauty, 1993 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Beauty, 1993 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Beauty, 1993 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Beauty, 1993 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Beauty, 1993 - PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, 2011 - Photo: Maria del Pilar Garcia Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Beauty, 1993 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Beauty, 1993 - Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2009, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Beauty, 1993 - ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, 2004 - Photo: Poul Pedersen
Beauty, 1993 - ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, 2004 - Photo: Poul Pedersen
Sketch for Beauty, 1993
Sketch for Beauty, 1993
Sketch for Beauty, 1993
Sketch for Beauty, 1993
Meteorologica
Spread from TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 2: Printed Matter, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Cologne 2009
With Inadvertent Reliance
The Logic of Light. Technology and the Humean Turn by Mirjam Schaub, The Logic of Light. Technology
Beauty, 1993 - Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2017 - Photo: Sébastien Roy
Beauty, 1993 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020 - Photo: Erika Ede
Beauty, 1993 - The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – 2020 - Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
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Bands of colored light shimmer in a curtain of mist. This apparition depends on the light projected from a precisely angled spotlight, as refracted and reflected by the water droplets, meeting the eye of the viewer. The resulting rainbow changes depending on the viewer’s position; no two viewers see the same rain-bow. Beauty was first shown in 1993 as part of a group exhibition in a garage in Copenhagen, an early articulation of Eliasson’s idea that the viewer is a necessary coproducer of the artwork.

Artwork details

Title

Beauty

Year

1993

Materials

Spotlight, water, nozzles, wood, hose, pump
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