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The inverted panorama house, 2004 - Sara Hildén Museum, Tampere, Finland, 2009 – 2004 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
The inverted panorama house, 2004
Sara Hildén Museum, Tampere, Finland, 2009 – 2004
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
The inverted panorama house, 2004 - Sara Hildén Museum, Tampere, Finland, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
The inverted panorama house, 2004
Sara Hildén Museum, Tampere, Finland, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
The inverted panorama house, 2004 - Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, 2004 - Photo: Werner Schnelle
The inverted panorama house, 2004
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, 2004
Photo: Werner Schnelle
The inverted panorama house, 2004 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 – 2004 - Photo: Günter Lepkowski
The inverted panorama house, 2004
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 – 2004
Photo: Günter Lepkowski
The inverted panorama house, 2004 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 – 2004 - Photo: Günter Lepkowski
The inverted panorama house, 2004
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 – 2004
Photo: Günter Lepkowski
The inverted panorama house, 2004 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 – 2004 - Photo: Günter Lepkowski
The inverted panorama house, 2004
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 – 2004
Photo: Günter Lepkowski
The inverted panorama house, 2004 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 – 2004 - Photo: Günter Lepkowski
The inverted panorama house, 2004
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2007 – 2004
Photo: Günter Lepkowski
The inverted panorama house
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A circular screen, approximately seven metres in diameter, encloses a group of glass elements comprising discs, rings, and a square. Suspended from a steel framework, each element rotates at a different speed. The square and three of the discs are patterned with concentric mirrored lines; the remaining discs and the rings are made of colour-effect filter glass. Light from a spotlight is reflected, obstructed, and filtered by the rotating glass forms to produce a complex interplay of reflections and shadows, which can be seen on both sides of the surrounding screen. Also visible on the screen are the shadows of viewers walking among the rotating glass elements.

 

Artwork details

Title

The inverted panorama house

Year

2004

Materials

Stainless steel, wood, projection foil, glass, mirror coating, colour-effect filter glass (yellow, red, blue), colour-effect filter glass rings, spotlight, HMI lamp, motors