Who could present themselves today as the heir of the artists presented here? Several artists could doubtless do this, but one of them is at the crossroads of several paths: Olafur Eliasson. For him, the viewer’s feelings and, in fact, everything to do with the senses, is the core of art.
Each one of his works was a journey from which travellers returned different from when they started it.
Olafur Eliasson, New York City Waterfalls,
2008, installation, Brooklyn Bridge, New York. Photo: Wally Gobetz, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Olafur Eliasson, Weather Project,
2003, installation, Tate Modern, London. Photo: wonderferret, CC BY 2.0
Olafur Eliasson, Eye see you,
2006, installation planned for Louis Vuitton shop windows. Photo: samu szemerey, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Through his installations, Olafur Eliasson worked on the viewer’s feelings, in an extension of Land Art, Minimalist Art and Arte povera.
