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Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Helsinki, 2002 – 2000 - Photo: Unknown photographer
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
Helsinki, 2002 – 2000
Photo: Unknown photographer
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002 - Photo: Bertrand Huet
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002
Photo: Bertrand Huet
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002 - Photo: Bertrand Huet
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002
Photo: Bertrand Huet
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 2000 - Photo: Koinegg
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 2000
Photo: Koinegg
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 2000 - Photo: Koinegg
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 2000
Photo: Koinegg
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Helsinki, 2002 – 2000 - Photo: Unknown photographer
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
Helsinki, 2002 – 2000
Photo: Unknown photographer
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Sketch for Fivefold tunnel, 2000 by Einar Thorsteinn
Sketch for Fivefold tunnel, 2000 by Einar Thorsteinn
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 2000 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, 2001 – 2000
Photo: Franz Wamhof
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, 2004 – 2000 - Photo: Werner Schnelle
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, 2004 – 2000
Photo: Werner Schnelle
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Fivefold tunnel, 2000 - Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, 2004 – 2000 - Photo: Werner Schnelle
Fivefold tunnel, 2000
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria, 2004 – 2000
Photo: Werner Schnelle
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Fivefold tunnel is a freestanding arched passageway composed of intersecting sets of parallel steel bars. The bars create a latticework structure whose pattern, based on Amman lines, displays fivefold symmetry. Five sets of parallel lines, spaced according to the golden ratio, cross each other at angles of 108 and 72 degrees, generating a complex aperiodic pattern that defies viewers’ expectations. The use of fivefold symmetry in this work stems from the artist’s close collaboration with Icelandic mathematician and architect Einar Thorsteinn.