In this new series of posts, we’ll explore the histories of key leading contemporary artists and the starting points of their creative practises.
The Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson creates large scale, immersive art installations. They take over spaces and hypnotize crowds of viewers. His work explores questions facing the world today including renewable energy, climate change and migration.
Eliasson’s work is informed by research and he utilises this on long pin-board walls where collaborators share questions, articles, images and news clippings. They expand from keywords and themes which guide collections of clippings like a giant brainstorm. An exciting energy is created by potential avenues of investigation created by the vast amount of information. The research stage is a hotbed of ideas and creativity which ultimately become artworks.
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