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  • Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Round rainbow, 2005 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • Round rainbow, 2005 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Round rainbow, 2005 - Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, 2005 - Photo: Terje Östling
Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Round rainbow, 2005 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Round rainbow, 2005 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Round rainbow, 2005 - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2005 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Round rainbow, 2005 - Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, 2005 - Photo: Terje Östling
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Round rainbow, 2005

colour

colour spectrum

darkness

light

light bending

prismatic

projection

rainbow

reflection

rotation

space embracer

space scanner

  • colour
  • colour spectrum
  • darkness
  • light
  • light bending
  • prismatic
  • projection
  • rainbow
  • reflection
  • rotation
  • space embracer
  • space scanner

Suspended from the ceiling of a darkened gallery space, a prismatic ring slowly rotates within a beam of light projected by a focused spotlight. As the ring rotates, it casts circles and arcs of light that move along the walls. Some of these are white, while others display the full range of colours in the visible spectrum.

Artwork details

Title

Round rainbow

Year

2005

Materials

Acrylic prism ring, steel, aluminium, motor, tripod, HMI lamp
Related
Artist's books
  • Your Engagement Has Consequences; On the Relativity of Your Reality, 2006
Exhibition catalogues
  • Olafur Eliasson: Nothingness is not nothing at all, 2016
  • Innen Stadt Außen, 2010
  • La naturalesa de les coses / La naturaleza de las cosas / The Nature of Things, 2008
Monographs
  • Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia, 2008
Solo shows
  • Nothingness is not nothing at all, 2016
  • Innen Stadt Außen, 2010
  • Your light shadow, 2005 - 2006
  • The light setup, 2005
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