Lars Müller Publishers 2010/2011 Architecture Design Photography ...

OLAfur ELIASSOn –
yOur ChAnCE EnCOunTEr
With an essay by architectural historian Eve Blau
and curator Hiromi Kurosawa
Design: Andreas Koch
24 × 20 cm, 9 ½ × 7 ¾ in, 216 pages
200 illustrations, hardcover
2010, ISBN 978-3-03778-211-8
English /Japanese
EUR 40.– GBP 40.– USD / CAD 65.–
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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 especially 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. This
artist 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.
Olafur Eliasson
yOur MOBILE EXPECTATIOnS:
BMw h 2 r PrOJECT
Design: heimann und Schwantes,
Studio Olafur Eliasson
14.7 × 21 cm, 5 ¾ × 8 ¼ in, 336 pages
415 illustrations, hardcover
2008, ISBN 978-3-03778-117-3, English
EUR 20.– GBP 20.– USD/CAD 30.–
As part of its BMW H 2 R research project,
Studio Olafur Eliasson is preparing a dense publication
comprising extensive visual material;
excerpts from two seminars held in 2006/2007;
and conversations between Olafur Eliasson
and a number of distinguished artists and thinkers.
In the research project, Eliasson raises
questions of formgiving and materiality, mobility,
temporality, movement, and renewable energy.
In 2005 a BMW H 2 R hydrogen-powered vehicle
was delivered to Studio Olafur Eliasson and
then stripped bare of its outer shell. To create
a new skin several form studies have been
carried out in a temporary geodesic dome, constructed
in the yard of the studio. The final
surface of the car consists of layers of ice, frozen
around two intricate nets, mirrored plates and
light. The “Climate car” can only exist in a microclimate
with a temperature of minus 6 degrees
Celsius or below.
Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen
SErPEnTInE gALLEry PAVILIOn
Design: heimann und Schwantes
17 × 24 cm, 6 ¾ × 8 ½ in, 128 pages
186 illustrations, hardcover
2007, ISBN 978-3-03778-116-6, English
EUR 25.– GBP 25.– USD/CAD 35.–
The Serpentine Gallery has commissioned
Olafur Eliasson and architect Kjetil Thorsen
(Snøhetta) to design its pavilion in 2007. Based
on the principle of a winding ramp, the pavilion
explores the idea of vertical circulation within
a single space. “Our collaboration on the Serpentine
Pavilion 2007 is defined by our mutual
focus on the experience of space and on temporality
as a constitutive element of spaces, private
or public. We both work within a field of spatial
experimentation that renders conceptual
differences between art and architecture superfluous.”
The publication comprises extensive visual
material documenting the development and
realisation of the pavilion; two essays by Doreen
Massey, Professor of Geography at The Open
University (UK), and Andreas Ruby, architecture
critic; a conversation between Olafur Eliasson,
Kjetil Thorsen, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julia
Peyton-Jones (Co-directors, Serpentine Gallery).
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