Olafur Eliasson at Venice Biennale

[Randy]

In Eliasson’s exhibition The Blind Pavilion for the Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennale, virtually all the strategies that the artist has employed up until now are activated: mirror reflections, glass kaleidoscopes, stretches of stairway, architectural interventions and camera obscuras. The exhibition will shape itself as a total installation which, on several levels, will cancel out the dividing lines between work and viewer, between outside and inside, between art and science. This will be accomplished, specifically speaking, through the construction of several interposed planes and stairways, through the positioning of works outside the pavilion – on the shifted roof surface – and with works displayed indoors. They will simultaneously trigger our memory about the world outside and very concretely conduct the world inside via scopic machines.

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