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Beauty, 1993 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
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 - 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
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
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Beauty, 1993 - PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, 2011 - Photo: Maria del Pilar Garcia Ayensa / Studio Olafur Eliasson
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
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
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, Denmark, 2004
Photo: Poul Pedersen
Beauty, 1993 - ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, 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
Sketch for Beauty, 1993
Sketch for Beauty, 1993
Sketch for Beauty, 1993
Sketch for Beauty, 1993
Meteorologica
Meteorologica
Spread from TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 2: Printed Matter, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Cologne 2009
Spread from TYT (Take Your Time) Vol. 2: Printed Matter, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Cologne 2009
With Inadvertent Reliance
With Inadvertent Reliance
The Logic of Light. Technology and the Humean Turn by Mirjam Schaub, The Logic of Light. Technology
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
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2017
Photo: Sébastien Roy
Beauty, 1993 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020 - Photo: Erika Ede
Beauty, 1993
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020
Photo: Erika Ede
Beauty, 1993 - The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – 2020 - Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
Beauty, 1993
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – 2020
Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
Beauty, 1993 - Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark – 2024 - Photo: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures | Singapore Art Museum
Beauty, 1993
Singapore Art Museum at Tanjong Pagar Distripark – 2024
Photo: Joseph Nair, Memphis West Pictures | Singapore Art Museum
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Bands of coloured 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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