Publisher's Synopsis
The Danish Contemporary Art Foundation has chosen the artist Olafur Eliasson to represent Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in the year 2003.;Olafur Eliasson's materials are elemental and ephemeral: light, heat, moisture, steam, and ice are manipulated by the artist towards aesthetic ends and in response to a specific site. His work navigates a space between nature and technology, the organic and the industrial. Your natural denudation inverted uses steam, which is a natural phenomenon in his ancestral homeland of Iceland but is here piped from the museum's heating system to imitate a natural geyser. The components of Eliasson's piece, which include steel scaffolding, industrially produced steam, and a constructed container of water, create an experience that is at once physical, sensory, and emotional.;This book is published on the occasion of the Venice Biennal June 15 - November 2.2003 Exhibition Schedule Tate Modern16 October 2003 - 21 March 2004
