olafur ELIASSON

Multiple Grotto, 2004. Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, installation view at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; (c) 2007 Olafur Eliasson; photo: Ian Reeves, courtesy SFMOMA

April 20 - June 30 2008

MoMA + PS1

Take your time: Olafur Eliasson is the first comprehensive survey in the United States of works by Danish/Iclandic artist Olafur Eliasson, who creates very simple yet conceptually dense works which incorporate physical phenomena as known from nature to bridge the gap betwen art and natural science. The impulse of his work springs from his interest in the conflicts between nature and culture. it is his intense study of the results of scientific research that he channels into aesthetic experiences of poetic cimplicity. Eliasson's work is remarkably diverse and includes large-scale installations such as Your Strange Certainty Still Kept (1996), a working model of a thunderstorm inside an exhibition space, as well as quite simple pieces made of ephemeral and provisional materials such as ice, steam and light.

Your Strange Certainty Still Kept, 1996, Water, light (stroboscope), Plexiglas, plastic, recirculating pump, wood © Courtesy The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens.

Inverted Berlin Sphere, 2005. Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, installation view at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; (c) 2007 Olafur Eliasson; photo: Ian Reeves, courtesy SFMOMA

Drawing from public and private collections worldwide, the exhibition will include 34 works that explore Eliasson’s diverse range of artistic production from 1991 to the present, including six new works created specifically for The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

what a massive event; i am QUIVERING with excitement.