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Yellow double hung windows, 1999 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2004 – 1999 - Photo: Oren Slor
Yellow double hung windows, 1999 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2004 – 1999 - Photo: Oren Slor
Yellow double hung windows, 1999 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2004 – 1999 - Photo: Oren Slor
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Yellow double hung windows, 1999

compositional layers

experiencing depth

light

light intensity

optical illusion

projection

spatial potential

square

three dimensionality

wall

yellow

  • compositional layers
  • experiencing depth
  • light
  • light intensity
  • optical illusion
  • projection
  • spatial potential
  • square
  • three dimensionality
  • wall
  • yellow

Two spotlights cast overlapping motifs of a window onto a wall as yellow light. Due to their relative positions, the projectors create a perspectival illusion of depth on the flat wall.

Artwork details

Title

Yellow double hung windows

Year

1999

Materials

Spotlights, tripods, colour filters (yellow), gobos
Related
Exhibition catalogues
  • Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo, 2022
  • La naturalesa de les coses / La naturaleza de las cosas / The Nature of Things, 2008
  • Your Lighthouse: Works with Light 1991–2004, 2004
Monographs
  • Olafur Eliasson: Experience, 2018
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