“Nel tuo tempo” (In Your Time) – The Visionary and Imaginative World of Olafur Eliasson at Palazzo Strozzi
Florence, 21st September 2022. The biggest exhibition dedicated to Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson ever organised in Italy, Nel tuo tempo (In Your Time) opens tomorrow at Palazzo Strozzi. The exhibition is the result of the direct work of one of the most original and visionary contemporary artists on the spaces of an iconic Renaissance palace in Florence, which he visited for the first time in 2015, accompanied by Arturo Galansino, Director of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and curator of the exhibition.
For the first time, singular works, historic installations, and new fascinating creations have the power of charming visitors by turning the palace from a historic container into a dynamic body, where windows, ceilings, walls, and corners become the absolute protagonists thanks to the use of lights, screens, mirrors, or coloured filters.
The departure point is Under the weather (2022), a site-specific work set up in the courtyard of the palace, built from a large 11-metre elliptical structure and suspended at 8 metres of height, creating a sort of moiré effect that destabilises the rigid orthogonal architecture of Palazzo Strozzi, creating a sort of visual ambiguity for all the visitors who cross it.
On the main floor, the itinerary continues with new installations such as How do we live together (2019), where a large metal arch occupies a room diagonally, whose ceiling is covered with a mirroring surface. Through an effect of optical illusion, the arch doubles, becoming a circle, a sort of ring combining real and irreal space.
The logo of the exhibition is a large polyhedron made with coloured glass (yellow, orange, green, and blue) named Firefly double-polyhedron sphere experiment (2020), that embodies the interest and passion of the artist for geometry and light.
“Nel tuo tempo is a match between works of art, visitors, and Palazzo Strozzi – said Olafur Eliasson – “This extraordinary building has crossed the centuries to welcome us here, now, in the 21st century, not as a mere container, but as ‘co-producer’ of this exhibition”.
INFO: www.palazzostrozzi.org
(Fiamma Domestici)