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Olafur Eliasson Kaleidoscope, 2001
Installationsansicht im Winterpalais, Wien, 2015
Aluminium, Aluminiumspiegel, Schaumkern, Klettband
180 x 180 x 728 cm
The Juan & Patricia Vergez Collection, Buenos Aires Foto: Anders Sune Berg © 2001 Olafur Eliasson

OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE

21/11/2015-6/3/2016
BAROQUE BAROQUE brings together a significant selection of artworks by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson from the private collections of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) and Juan and Patricia Vergez presenting them within the grand Eugene of Savoy (16631736), was an important site of artistic and scientific patronage in baroque Vienna. BAROQUE BAROQUE is an encounter between artworks, aesthetics, habits of perception and proposes that reality can be understood as unstable and evolving works and their temporary settings become evident as the juxtapositions explore the relationships between object and viewer, representation and experience, actual and virtual, giving rise to a concept of the baroque superimposed on itself the BAROQUE BAROQUE. 

Posted 23 November 2015

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While emphazing the way spaces are constructed by history and tradition, Eliasson’s work address the viewer in her embodied experience. Through the use of projections, shadows, and reflections, the artworks foreground the relationship between body, perception, and image. They anchor agency in the body and mind in motion as they invite the viewer’s active engagement by mirroring, fragmenting, and inverting her position within space. 

Olafur Eliasson, Five orientation lights, 1999
Ausstellungsansicht: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, Oberes Belvedere, Wien
Edelstahl, farbiges Glas, Halogenleuchten, Fresnellinsen
Jeweils: 200 x 70 x 70 cm, Installation: Maße variabel
Sammlung Juan & Patricia Vergez, Buenos Aires
Foto: Anders Sune Berg, 2015, © Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson, Yellow corridor, 1997
Installationsansicht im Winterpalais, Wien, 2015
Monofrequenzleuchten
Maße variabel
The Juan & Patricia Vergez Collection, Buenos Aires Foto: Anders Sune Berg © 1997 Olafur Eliasson

Eliasson states, the boundaries between models of reality and, simply, reality. The presentation of my works at the Winter Palace is based on trust in the possibility of constructing reality according to our shared dreams and desires and on faith in the idea that constructions and models are as real of the Winter Palace. His fascination with the phenomena of nature can be compared with Prince Eugene, who commissioned this unique architectural gem and who held the sciences and technological progress in high regard. This frame of mind becomes tangible - indeed, it seems to come alive - in the exhibition and changes our perception. Arco, Director of the Belvedere and 21er Haus. 

TBA21 Founder, Francesca von Habsburg says: elements that I think support the vision of collectors and their responsibility as well as their ability to create art projects that defies traditional categorization. Both Patricia and Juan Vergez and I have been collecting and supporting Olafur Eliasson for many years with great enthusiasm, as he is indeed a renaissance man of many talents! In this presentation we wanted to introduce a parallel that Olafur himself has mirrored in the exhibition rooms, that juxtaposes the precious Baroque cultural heritage of Vienna with the work of an artist that I

"When Francesca came up with this brilliant project at the Winterpalais, we loved it and it was a dream to us which now has come true. We hope the viewer will be able to let go of himself by transforming his way to see reality, opening up new worlds of sensations and perceptions," says Patricia Vergez. "We also hope that people during this exhibition will enjoy challenging their limits of imagination just as Francesca and we have been doing since we discovered Olafur's work." 

Olafur Eliasson New Berlin Sphere, 2009
Installationsansicht im Winterpalais, Wien, 2015
Edelstahl, Aluminium, Farbiges Glas, Glühbirne
Ø 140 cm, Installation: Maße variabel
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna Foto: Anders Sune Berg © 2009 Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson Kaleidoscope, 2001
Installationsansicht im Winterpalais, Wien, 2015
Aluminium, Aluminiumspiegel, Schaumkern, Klettband
180 x 180 x 728 cm
The Juan & Patricia Vergez Collection, Buenos Aires Foto: Anders Sune Berg © 2001 Olafur Eliasson

"When Francesca came up with this brilliant project at the Winterpalais, we loved it and it was a dream to us which now has come true. We hope the viewer will be able to let go of himself by transforming his way to see reality, opening up new worlds of sensations and perceptions," says Patricia Vergez. "We also hope that people during this exhibition will enjoy challenging their limits of imagination just as Francesca and we have been doing since we discovered Olafur's work."
In the entrance Vestibule, the light installation Die organische und kristalline Beschreibung (The organic and crystalline description) (1996) floods the walls, floor, and ceiling with swelling washes of blue and stability of her environment. In Yellow corridor (1997), monofrequency light is used to heighten the precariousness of our relationship to visible space. Eliasson’s optical machines and installations –installations such as Kaleidoscope (2001), New Berlin Sphere (2009), Your welcome reflected (2003), and Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), (2011) ongoing investigations of color, perception, transformation, and deconstruction, an inquiry that is particularly interesting in relation to the baroque context. A site-specific intervention in the form of a continuous mirror traversing the enfilade of grand rooms further disorients the viewer by folding and re-folding the complex spaces it produces. Wishes versus wonders (2015), a steel half-ring mounted to the mirror wall in the Hall of Battle Paintings, stages an encounter between reality, illusion, and the elaborate artifice of the surroundings, simultaneously multiplying lines of potentiality. 

Within this terrain of doubling and paradox, Eliasson calls into question our received habits of seeing and experiencing space. His artworks make us wonder and reconsider, giving meaning to the enigmatic doubling inherent in BAROQUE BAROQUE. 

Olafur Eliasson, Your welcome reflected, 2003
 
Ausstellungsansicht: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, Winterpalais des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Wien
Farbeffektfilterglas (blau, rot), Motoren, HMI-Leuchte, Stativ
Jede Glasscheibe: ø 75 cm, Installation: Maße variabel
Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
Foto: Anders Sune Berg, 2015, © Olafur Eliasson
 

Olafur Eliasson, Your welcome reflected, 2003
Ausstellungsansicht: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, Winterpalais des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Wien
Farbeffektfilterglas (blau, rot), Motoren, HMI-Leuchte, Stativ
Jede Glasscheibe: ø 75 cm, Installation: Maße variabel
Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
Foto: Anders Sune Berg, 2015, © Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson, Your welcome reflected, 2003
Ausstellungsansicht: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, Winterpalais des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Wien
Farbeffektfilterglas (blau, rot), Motoren, HMI-Leuchte, Stativ
Jede Glasscheibe: ø 75 cm, Installation: Maße variabel
Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
Foto: Anders Sune Berg, 2015, © Olafur Eliasson

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The exhibition opens on the occasion of VIENNA ART WEEK, November 16-22, 2015.
www.viennaartweek.at

Feature of the exhibition on the Austrian national TV:
BAROCK.BAROCK.
OLAFUR ELIASSON BIEGT ZEIT UND RAUM
A portrait by Ines Mitterer | Copenhagen.Berlin.Vienna 2015
An ORF production in partnership with TBA21 and Belvedere
Broadcast premiere on ORF 2; Monday, November 21, 2015; 10:30 pm (UTC+1)
 
ROUNDTABLE
CREATING WORLDS
with Olafur Eliasson, Aurélien Barrau, Mirjam Schaub and Daniela Zyman
Friday, November 20, 2015 | 5 pm | Marble Hall at Upper Belvedere
In English
On the occasion of the opening of OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, Belvedere and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary are hosting a roundtable discussion in the lavish notions of world making, Eliasson, physicist Aurélien Barrau, philosopher Mirjam Schaub, and chief curator Daniela Zyman will come together to discuss creativity and knowledge production, as well as the expressive transgressions of reality and illusion that are evident both derstand terms such as real and fictional, model versus reality? Are we still inclined to regard the scientific process as a benchmark for understanding and as a paradigm of knowledge production, or has the archive of ideas (valid and obsolete, scientific, philosophical, artistic, and political) long grown stylistic and rhetorical dramatization, mobilize the creation of new and old worlds?
Aurélien Barrau is a French physicist and philosopher, who specializes in astroparticle physics, black holes and cosmology at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
Mirjam Schaub has been Professor of Aesthetics and Cultural Philosophy at the University for Applied Science (HAW) in Hamburg since 2012.
Daniela Zyman is chief curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and co-curator of the exhibition. 

About the artist
The Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) works in a wide variety of mediums, including installation, painting, sculpture, photography, and film. Since 1997 his critically acclaimed solo shows have appeared in major museums around the world, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tate Modern, London, and in major international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale. In 2003 The weather project, installed in the Turbine spaces include Camera obscura für die Donau, Austria (2004); Your black horizon, commissioned by TBA21 and installed in a pavilion designed by David Adjaye at Lopud, Croatia (2005); The New York City Waterfalls (2008); Your rainbow panorama, a 150-meter circular colored-glass walkway situated on top of ARoS Museum in Aarhus, Denmark (200611); and Cirkelbroen (The circle bridge), Copenhagen (2015). In 2006 Eliasson was awarded the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Prize for Architecture and Art. 

Olafur Eliasson, Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
Ausstellungsansicht: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, Winterpalais des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Wien
Edelstahl, Aluminium, Farbeffektfilterglas (cyan, blau, pink, gelb), Spiegel
195 x 325 x 200 cm
Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
Foto: Anders Sune Berg, 2015, © Olafur Eliasson

Established in 1995, Eliasson’s Berlin studio today employs about ninety craftsmen, specialized technicians, architects, archivists, administrators, and cooks. They work with Eliasson to experiment and to develop and produce artworks and exhibitions, as well as to archive and communicate his work, digitally and in print. In addition to realizing artworks in-house, the studio contracts with structural engineers and other specialists and collaborates worldwide with cultural practitioners, policy makers, and scientists. It regularly hosts workshops and events in order to further artistic and intellectual exchanges with people and institutions outside the art world.

From 2009 to 2014 Eliasson led the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments), a five-year experiment in arts education affiliated with the Berlin University of the Arts. He is currently adjunct professor at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Since 2012 Eliasson has directed the social business Little Sun, together with the engineer Frederik Ottesen, which produces and distributes solar lamps for use in off-grid communities.
In 2014, Eliasson and collaborator Sebastian Behmann founded Studio Other Spaces to focus on interdisciplinary and experimental building projects and works in public space.
Eliasson lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. 

The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy is the fourth exhibition venue of the Belvedere Museum. Originally built as a lavish stately residence for Prince Eugene of Savoy, then acquired in the eighteenth century by Empress Maria Theresa before being used for the Court Treasury and later as the Ministry of Finance, this Baroque palace underwent extensive renovation before reopening as a public museum in October 2013. Since then, the Belvedere has staged numerous exhibitions at this extraordinary city palace, placing particular emphasis on programs and projects that create a dialogue between the Baroque setting and contemporary art. Artistic interventions result in and the holdings of the Belvedere. 

About TBA21
Founded in 2002 by Francesca von Habsburg in Vienna, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art to the arts. The foundation is dedicated primarily to the commissioning and dissemination of ambitious, experimental, and unconventional projects that defy traditional categorizations. This approach has gained the collection a pioneering reputation throughout the world. The are architectural, context- and site-specific, performative, and often informed by an interest in social aesthetics and environmental concerns. Many of the projects reflect the shift to transdisciplinary practices embracing architecture, sound, music, and science. 

Olafur Eliasson, Double light ventilator mobile, 2003
Ausstellungsansicht: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, Winterpalais des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Wien
Ventilator, zwei Scheinwerfer, Glasfaserrohre, gleitende Kontakte, Kabel, Draht
Maße variabel
Sammlung Juan & Patricia Vergez, Buenos Aires
Foto: Anders Sune Berg, 2015, © Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson, BAROQUE BAROQUE, Winterpalais des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Wien
Foto: Anders Sune Berg, 2015 © 2015 Olafur Eliasson

About the Juan & Patricia Vergez Collection
The Juan & Patricia Vergez Collection in Buenos Aires, Argentina was developed by Juan Vergez and Patricia Pearson-Vergez in the late 1980s. The collection initially focused on Argentinian artists of the 1960s and 1970s, and after many trips to Brazil and Europe it expanded its international focus. In 2006 they opened Tacuarí, a four-story building which used to be a former traditional ink factory in the center of Buenos Aires. Many Latin American and post-Wall European art as well as commissioned pieces from Argentine artists are shown emerging Buenos Aires talents and well-known artist from around the world. In 1999 Juan and Patricia Vergez purchased their first artwork by Olafur Eliasson, Yellow corridor (1997) at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. 

CATALOGUE
OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE
Published on the occasion of the exhibition significant works from the holdings of TBA21 and the Juan and Patricia Vergez Collection. The Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy in Vienna.
Accompanying the ambitious exhibition at the Winter Palace, the catalogue examines some of temporary baroque housing how transformations of space, perception and cognition reflect the realms of ontology, politics, technology, and the Anthropocene.
With contributions by Mario Codognato, Irmgard Emmelhainz, Paul Feigelfeld, Georg Lechner, Sandra Noeth, Mirjam Schaub, and Daniela Zyman
Edited by Belvedere and TBA21
Design by John McCusker
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin
Publication date: December 2015 
Price: Euro 35,--

Olafur Eliasson, Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
Ausstellungsansicht: OLAFUR ELIASSON: BAROQUE BAROQUE, Winterpalais des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen, Wien
Edelstahl, Aluminium, Farbeffektfilterglas (cyan, blau, pink, gelb), Spiegel
195 x 325 x 200 cm
Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien
Foto: Anders Sune Berg, 2015, © Olafur Eliasson

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