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Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your Chance Encounter, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2010
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your Chance Encounter, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2010
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your Chance Encounter, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2010
Spread from Olafur Eliasson: Your Chance Encounter, edited by Studio Olafur Eliasson, Baden 2010
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020 - Photo: Erika Ede
Your atmospheric colour atlas, 2009
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020
Photo: Erika Ede
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Your atmospheric colour atlas comprises condensed banks of artificially produced fog in a gallery. The fog is infused with the additive colours red, green and blue, emitted from hundreds of fluorescent lights that are installed in the ceiling as a colour grid, thus indirectly introducing a scale of measurement of the space. At each colour boundary, two hues blend to create transitional slivers of cyan, magenta, or yellow, adding up to a zone of pure, white light in the middle where all the colours meet. Walking through the dense, illuminated atmosphere, visitors navigate the space by using this intuitive colour atlas.

Artwork details

Title

Your atmospheric colour atlas

Year

2009

Materials

Fluorescent lights, colour filter foil (red, green, blue), aluminium, steel, ballasts, haze machine