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Olafur Eliasson, Sunset kaleidoscope, 2005 (detail). Courtesy the artist; Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan; and West of Rome, Los Angeles.

July 21, 7:00 pm

Take your time: Olafur Eliasson
Madeleine Grynsztejn
at Anderson Ranch, Schermer Meeting Hall

Madeleine Grynsztejn is the Pritzker Director at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and
curator of the acclaimed exhibition Take your
time: Olafur Eliasson. Olafur Eliasson is among
the most influential and widely-acclaimed artists of his generation. 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 circumstances 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
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