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WT 029_2025_L - Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin - Photo: Jens Ziehe
WT 029_2025_L
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin
Photo: Jens Ziehe
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The small atmosphere, 2025

To create this painting, Eliasson explored the creative possibilities afforded by the medium and the vagaries of chance. Alcohol ink is a material that is distinguished by its especially vibrant hues and fast drying time. It is also given to spreading and blending unpredictably. For this painting, Eliasson poured the diluted inks directly onto the page and allowed them to bleed into the paper, only ever intervening in gentle ways, by tilting the board or nudging the flow with a hairdryer, to arrive at the final composition. The abstract shapes, which flow out from the centre of the paper and could be interpreted as reminiscent of a landscape, are thus the results of a collaboration between the artist and chance.

Artwork details

Title

The small atmosphere

Year

2025

Materials

Alcohol ink on paper