Nature-Technology-Environment - Art at Lunchtime on Olafur Eliasson
It rustles and seethes under the wooden platform. Visitors to art at lunchtime on June 18, 2024 curiously climb the steps of the platform, look through a cone into the depths to explore Olafur Eliasson's "The antigravity cone". Water becomes visible, which shoots eruptively into the air, and appears frozen for a brief moment by stroboscopic light - as if a photo had been taken. Then, attracted by gravity, the water falls back into the depths, only to be catapulted back into the air again. The associations of visitors are wide-ranging: natural phenomena (geysers, volcanos, galaxies) come to mind as well as the technical and artisanal aspects of the work of art. It is also a work that can be "used" and interacts with its surroundings. All these aspects, Matthias Haldemann explains, were of the highest relevance for Friedrich Kiesler, who is placed in a dialogue with contemporary artists such as Olafur Eliasson in the current exhibition "Kiesler Today". Kiesler was and still is an inspiration for numerous artists.
Speaking of Olafur Eliasson: On Thursday, 20.6.2024, SOS (Studio Other Spaces) will present the architectural preliminary project for the extension of the Kunsthaus Zug. For detailed information about the event, click on the link below.