Olaufur Eliasson, your lighthouse: works with light 1991 - 2004. Exhiition, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 28.5. - 5.9.2004

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Olafur Eliasson: Your Lighthouse: Works with Light 1991-2004, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, May 28-September 5, 2004. Includes brief biography of the artist. The drama of nature: Olaf Eliasson's light and mirror installations from 1990 to the present - a comprehensive survey. Olafur Eliasson's installation "The Weather Project cast a veritable spell over visitors to the Tate Museum of Modern Art in London as they gazed in wonder into a glowing artificial sun shrouded in mist in an exhibition setting transformed by the work into a neo-romantic landscape. In his installations, the Danish-Icelandic artist focuses on the factors that influence human perception in the age of technology--an approach that is more timely today than ever before. In an era in which our relationship to the world around us is shaped by the mediatization of human perception and our awareness of fundamental environmental loss, the juxtaposition of the natural and the artificial in Eliasson's art compels us to reassess our notions about the authentic experience of nature. Works concerned with the phenomenon of light play an important role within his oeuvre, and they are the subject of this publication. Featuring an index of the 138 light and mirror installations completed between 1991 and 2004, this splendidly illustrated volume describes all of the essential aspects of this complex work. Sponsor's Foreword / Burkhard Breiing -- Your Lighthouse : A Visual Feast In The Transparent Museum : Foreword / Gijs Van Tuyl -- Bar Codes In The Stars / Richard Dawkins -- Visionary Abstractions / Jonathan Crary -- Twentieth-century Light And Space Art / Annelie Lu·tgens -- Light - Space - Color - Olafur Eliasson's Experiment Set-ups With Light / Holger Broeker -- Exhibited Works -- Works With Light 1990-2004 / Holger Broeker -- Appendix. [catalogue Concept, Gijs Van Tuyl, Holger Broeker]. Published In Conjunction With An Exhibition Of The Same Title Held At The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, May 28-sept. 5, 2004. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 183-187) And Index.