OLAFUR ELIASSON: "LIFE", AN INSTINCTIVE EXPERIENCE AT THE BEYELER FOUNDATION
The renowned Danish artist Olafur Eliasson presents a site-specific artwork for the first time in Switzerland. The installation Life will be installed at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel and will remain there until July this year.
The installation conceived for the space seems to be the culmination of Olafur Eliasson's artistic quest. Focused since the 1990s on producing installations and artworks that stimulate and transform hegemonic cultural and cognitive conditions of perception, Life is exhibited as a naked body. Stripped of any text or explanatory content, the installation proposes a pact of intuitive and instinctive experience with the spectator: a de-intellectualisation of the aesthetic experience that proposes a more human approach to the work of art.
Considered one of the most influential contemporary artists of the 21st century, Eliasson has devoted practically his entire career to unravelling the concepts of perception, movement, bodily experience and the emotional stimuli that artistic objects and spaces can produce in the individual. Unclassifiable, Eliasson is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects are in constant dialogue with architectural spaces and the force they exert on human transit, as well as the relationships they develop with them.
The Life project invites us to think about the relationship between culture and nature at a time when new ways of relating to the environment are necessary. This is why, for anyone passing through Basel, the installation exhibited at the Beyeler Foundation is not only a unique experience, but also an unmissable event.
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