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  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, California, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, California, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, California, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, California, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 – 2005 - Photo: Christopher Burke
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, California, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 – 2005 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, 2013 – 2005 - Photo: Heike Göttert
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009 – 2005 - Photo: Jenni Carter
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 – 2005 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 – 2005 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, California, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, California, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, California, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, California, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 – 2005 - Photo: Christopher Burke
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, California, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 – 2005 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, 2013 – 2005 - Photo: Heike Göttert
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009 – 2005 - Photo: Jenni Carter
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 – 2005 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 - Photo: Ian Reeves / Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 – 2005 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
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Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005

crystalline

infinity

kaleidoscopic

looking out

multiple reflections

optical device

rotation

seeing differently

sun

yellow

  • crystalline
  • infinity
  • kaleidoscopic
  • looking out
  • multiple reflections
  • optical device
  • rotation
  • seeing differently
  • sun
  • yellow

Similar to The inner kaleidoscope, 2000, this work consists of a square wooden construction, internally lined with mirrors and abutting a window. A rotating “sun” in the form of a translucent yellow disc is located within. Both the sun and the view of the outside are infinitely reflected in the mirrors.

Artwork details

Title

Sunset kaleidoscope

Year

2005

Materials

Wood, steel, mirrors, motor, colour-effect filter glass
Related
Artist's books
  • Your Engagement Has Consequences; On the Relativity of Your Reality, 2006
Exhibition catalogues
  • Olafur Eliasson: Eine Feier, elf Räume und ein gelber Korridor, 2014
  • La naturalesa de les coses / La naturaleza de las cosas / The Nature of Things, 2008
  • Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, 2007
Monographs
  • Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia, 2008
Solo shows
  • Eine Feier, elf Räume und ein gelber Korridor, 2013
  • Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2009
  • Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2008
  • Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2007-2008
  • Meant to be lived In (Today I´m feeling prismatic), 2005
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