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Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967)
Untitled
signed, numbered and dated '1/1 O Eliasson. '95' (on the reverse)
Cibachrome print mounted on board
16 x 23⅞in. (40.5 x 60.5cm.)
Executed in 1995, this work is from an edition of one

Provenance:
Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's Olympia, 25 October 2005, lot 401.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited:
Copenhagen, Stalke Galleri, Nye Fotos, 1997.

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Specialist Notes:

Untitled is one of Olafur Eliasson’s early photographs of his native Scandinavia, conceived the same year that he graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art. Begun in the early 1990s, the series of photographs was taken during the artist’s annual hiking trips in Iceland and was conceived as studies for concepts he went on to explore in his installation art. Taken while in motion, walking, sailing or flying, his photographs of the landscape explore the importance of time and motion in the act of looking. Indeed Eliasson’s larger practice of installations, paintings, photography and films have all interrogated concepts surrounding cognition and perception.
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