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Olafur Eliasson In Real Life
<\/em><\/strong>edited by Mark Godfrey
published by Tate Enterprises, Ltd.
2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olafur Eliasson In Real Life<\/em> isn’t a conventional art show catalog, if you can’t already tell that from my other two or three notes about this book here. Yes, it does include photographs from the remarkable exhibition of the same name at the Tate Modern<\/a>, which had adults saying “WOAH!” out loud while walking blindly through bright rooms, staring at mirrors and lenses and wave machines, and playing in colored lights like happy children. A conventional catalog would describe what we would have seen and experienced if we’d visited the exhibit in person, with some essays to understand the work better in retrospect. This book is instead is a supplement (and according to the artist, part of the exhibit itself) that pulls together interviews with scientists, artists, chefs, musicians, designers, and others to discuss a broad range of approaches to human engagement with the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, the pictures are PRETTY, but that’s just to lure you in to thinking about the world more broadly. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studio Olafur Eliasson isn’t just one person or particular pieces of art: it’s a large team of people with a range of specialties who are exploring all sorts of ways to engage with the world, from eating (yes, the studio has a vegetarian restaurant to feed the team; they’ve published a cookbook AND ran a cafe at the Tate Modern during the exhibit)<\/span><\/em>, to coloring rivers to raise your awareness of them (and what they should look like when they aren’t harmlessly-but-vividly-colored)<\/span><\/em>, to being aware of light (those yellow rooms are really more interesting in altering perception than you would guess)<\/span><\/em>, to producing solar products, to displaying remarkable rooms of geometric models that form the various presentations of the Model Room<\/a> (which remind me of something one would make at SF’s own interactive science museum The Exploratorium<\/a>)<\/span><\/em>, and include many great works by the late Einar Thorsteinn<\/a>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book packs in a lot of concepts, extensive discussions about the role of culture, the false split between culture and nature, some disturbing descriptions from a chef about duck brains (Scandinavian food has never sounded more alarming)<\/span><\/em>, that amazing Fab 5 Freddy interview that delighted and amused me (and inspired me to watch some of F5F’s film, Wild Style<\/em>, on YouTube), ideas that sent me off to order books and read up on random topics… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book is an engaging work\/collection in its own right even when separated from the exhibit, and supplements the gorgeous visuals and experiences of the show with lots of in-depth research. I feel my mind has been enriched by having spent time with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olafur Eliasson In Real Life edited by Mark Godfreypublished by Tate Enterprises, Ltd.2019 Olafur Eliasson In Real Life isn’t a conventional art show catalog, if you can’t already tell that from my other two or three notes about this book here. Yes, it does include photographs from the remarkable exhibition of the same name at … <\/p>\n

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