Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson was born in 1967 in Copenhagen to Icelandic parents but now works from his large laboratory-like studio in Berlin. He has established himself as one of the most sought-after artists at major institutions around the world: the Tate Modern in London, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Venice Biennale. His art moves in a special world where aesthetics and science form a marvellous alliance. The ideas are advanced but the results are simple and playful. Eliasson works in sculpture, painting, photography, film and installations, but also with architectural projects and site-specific works in public space. Light, wind and water in all its forms are recurring elements.
In the early 1990s, Eliasson began photographing nature during his annual holidays on his childhood island of Iceland. The pictures were taken while he was walking, sailing, climbing or flying. They range from more traditional landscapes to close-ups of rocks, moss and glacier ice, usually assembled in large series. In this way, he elevates the subject from a mere documentation of a landscape to a contemporary idea-based artwork that discusses environmental change and man's relationship to nature. Eliasson's fascination with rocks, caves and stones is visible in several of his photographic works. Many of his works depict the outside of the rock, but also its openings with waterfalls, geysers and volcanoes. In this auction there are several examples of that as we sell several works from his production, ‘Stone Series’, ‘Iceland series’, ‘Waterfall series’ and ‘Stone series / Big Stone’.