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Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, installation view at
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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The San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art held an Opening
Party on September 5 for Take your time: Olafur
Eliasson, the first full-scale survey of projects
by this contemporary Icelandic artist to appear in
the United States.
The exhibition which runs from September 8, 2007 to
February 24, 2008, gathers works from major public
and private collections worldwide and spans Eliasson's
diverse range of artistic production from 1993 to the
present, including installations, largescale immersive
environments, freestanding sculpture, and photography.
Eliasson is among the most influential and widely
acclaimed artists of his generation. From light-filled
environments to walk-in kaleidoscopes, his uniquely
participatory works offer alluring spaces that harness
optical cognition and meteorological elements, examine
the intersection of nature and science, and explore
the boundary between the organic and the artificial.
Having been raised partly in Iceland, Eliasson's
practice is informed by that country's primordial
landscape and spectacular weather. He recontextualizes
elements such as light, water, ice, fog, arctic moss,
and lava rock to create altogether new circumstance
that shift the viewer's consciousness and sense
of place. By extension, his work prompts an intensive
engagement with the world outside and a fresh consideration
of everyday life.
Eliasson has created several new works for SFMOMA's
presentation, including a walk-through tunnel
structure on the Museum's thirty-eight-foot pedestrian
sky bridge that will be visible from the atrium five
stories below. Designed to convey an overarching, environmental
effect, Take your time: Olafur Eliasson will retain the sense of immersion and boundlessness
of the artist's most monumental pieces while
presenting a chronological survey that occupies nearly
ten thousand square feet.
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Madeleine Grynsztejn, SFMOMA's Elise S. Hass Curator of Painting
and Sculpture;
Olafur Eliasson; Tanya Bonakdar.
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Charles Schwab, SFMOMA Board president; Helen Schwab; SFMOMA director
Neal Benezra.
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Paul Pelosi and Helen Hilton Raiser, SFMOMA trustee and exhibition sponsor.
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Sophie Ebert with Felix Tristan Hallwachs.
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Neal Benezra; Mimi L. Haas, exhibition sponsor and SFMOMA
trustee.
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Carla Emil, SFMOMA trustee; Madeleine Grynsztjen.
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Henry Urbach, SFMOMA's Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture
and Design; designer Yves Behar.
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Thomas Girst and Jack Pitney of BMW, exhibition sponsor
of Your tempo.
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Rudolf Frieling, SFMOMA curator of Media Arts; Nora Stone.
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Charles M. Collins, SFMOMA trustee.
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| Photos:
Drew Altizer Photography, courtesy SFMOMA; Installation
view: © 2007 Olafur Eliasson; photo: Ian
Reeves, courtesy SFMOMA |
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AUG 05,
2008
CRI Young Philanthropists' Summer Social |
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AUG 02,
2008
Southampton Hospital Summer Party |
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AUG 01,
2008
Rita Hayworth Gala Kickoff |
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AUG 01,
2008
Aspen Art Museum artCRUSH |
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JUL 31,
2008
Black Ties & Baseball Caps Gala |
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JUL 31,
2008
Aspen Art Museum previewCRUSH |
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JUL 29,
2008
Mostly Mozart Festival Gala |
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JUL 25,
2008
HOFI Hamptons Benefit |
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JUL 25,
2008
NY Stem Cell Foundation Reception |
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JUL 22,
2008
Museum at FIT Cocktail |
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JUL 19,
2008
HDS Gala Preview |
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