Olafur Eliasson: A harmonious cycle of interconnected nows: Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Azabudai Hills Gallery, operated by Mori Building Co., Ltd. will hold an inaugural exhibition, Olafur Eliasson: A harmonious cycle of interconnected nows from November 24, 2023 to March 31, 2024. at the newly opened Azabudai Hills Gallery in Azabudai Hills.

Olafur Eliasson (born in 1967 in Denmark), an Icelandic-Danish artist, has attracted worldwide attention not only for his diverse genre-crossing works, but also his active engagement with social issues including the climate crisis. Eliasson’s works, including his large-scale installations, invite fresh interpretations of the world and our relationship with nature through new perceptual experiences guided by natural phenomena and their constituent elements of color, light, and movement.

The exhibition explores the ideas central to Eliasson’s new public artwork, A harmonious cycle of interconnected nows (2023). Through new installations, works on paper, and three-dimensional pieces – coupled with older works – the artist pursues the motifs of line, gesture and movement. From the large light-and-water installation Your split second house (2010) to Firefly biosphere (falling magma star) (2023), a geometric sculpture containing intricately refracted light, to new drawings powered by sunlight, wind, and other phenomena of nature, Olafur Eliasson: A harmonious cycle of interconnected nows presents a selection of works that appeal to the senses and are supported by research into natural phenomena, geometry, physics, movement and patterns.

Photo by Shimei Nakatogawa