Skrevet af ELIASSON SANAA
The acclaimed Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson developed a
sequence of spatial experiments for his Your Chance Encounter exhibition
in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. His
piece challenges visitors to move around and get their bearings, and
stimulates them to see the museum as a public space for addressing art
and reality critically. The installations were developed specifically
for the exhibition. They are arranged in a tight context with the
spatial structure of the museum and extend the concept of architecture
by the Japanese architecture practice SANAA. Olafur Eliasson does not
work only in the museum galleries, but also in the corridors in between
and the adjacent courtyards, thus linking the indoor and outdoor areas
closely and examining this museum's unique qualities. The artist's book
was created in close co-operation with Olafur Eliasson's studio. Its
elaborate design with an extensive pictorial section offers a
comprehensive record of the exhibition and an important analysis of this
successful artist's work. An essay by art historian Eve Blau interprets
the exhibition in relation to its surroundings and contrasts the
experimental approaches of Olafur Eliasson and SANAA, while curator
Hiromi Kurosawa introduces the history and context of the museum in
Kanazawa.
