Interview - Critic and curator Daniel Birnbaum discusses with the artist the role of location and the immediate environment in both his gallery (indoor) and remote-site (outdoor) work. - Survey - Curator and critic Madeleine Grynstejn examines the unique position of the artist, overlapping technological and artistic innovation in the creation of his art. - Focus - Architecture theorist Michael Speaks looks at the work Green River (1998), a series of photographs, particularly in relation to Antonioni's 1964 film, Red Desert. - Artist's Choice - The artist has selected an extract from Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution dealing with our subjective, visual response to nature -- mirroring a central theme in the artist's own work. - Artist's Writings - Olafur Eliasson's writings include an essay on that most banal of topics, 'The Weather', and an open letter entitled 'Dear Everybody', addressed to the viewers of his artwork. - Chronology and Bibliography
Madeleine Grynstejn (Survey) is senior curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She was previously curator of the 1999 Carnegie International, and curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art since 1997. Grynsztejn was associate curator (1992-96) and acting department head (1996) for 20th-century painting and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, and associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1986-1992). Daniel Birnbaum (Interview) is a contributing editor of Artforum and the author of several books on art and philosophy, including The Hospitality of Presence: Problems of Otherness in Husserl's Phenomenology (1998) and, Production (2000 with the artist Carsten Holler). From 1998 to 2000 he was the director of IASPIS, an artists' residency programme based in Stockholm. Since January 2001 he has been the Director of Portikus and the Stadelschule Art Academy, both in Frankfurt. Michael Speaks (Focus) is an architecture theorist who has taught in the graphic design department at the Yale School of Art, in the architecture departments at Harvard University and Columbia University, among others. He is currently Graduate Program Head at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. The founding editor of Polygraph and Senior Editor at ANY magazine in New York, he was also the Series Editor for 'Writing Architecture' published by the MIT Press. Speaks has edited several books on contemporary architecture and culture including The Critical Landscape (1997). For his Artist's Choice Eliasson has selected an extract from Creative Evolution (1907) by French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) on the relationship between the objective reality of the physical world in contrast to our subjective experience of it. Olafur Eliasson has written short essays on such themes as the weather and colour that share the same playful, inventive nature in his art. Also included is a letter to his viewers explaining the co-existence in his work of art, architecture, and science, all experienced simultaneously through the viewer's movement through his large installations.
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