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The horizon series, 2002 - neugerriemschneider, Berlin, 2002 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
The horizon series, 2002 - The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Spread from Sonne statt Regen, edited by Caroline Eggel / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Ostfildern-Ruit 2003
Spread from Sonne statt Regen, edited by Caroline Eggel / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Ostfildern-Ruit 2003
Spread from Winter Solstice, Equinox, Summer Solstice, Stockholm 2009
The horizon series, 2002 - Lunds Konsthall, Sweden, 2005 - Photo: Terje Östling
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For this series of forty colour photographs, Eliasson travelled around Iceland in an effort to collect and map the island’s horizons. According to the artist, it aims at “a systematized way of looking at the landscape,” recording space, light, and weather, as well as the volume and depth of the terrain. The images “are specific methodological studies and embody a certain desire to organize and rationalize a particular phenomenon.” The consistency of the compositions highlights variations in the landscapes and their relation to the human observer.