“The illusion of light, long a desiderata of painters in Western art history, is here the result of applying thin, translucent layers of pigment in succession, with a precision of execution that creates a completely seamless transition through the color spectrum. The pristine, vaporous rainbow seems to emanate from the paper, the large scale enveloping the viewer in color.”
I know there’s a whole gallery of them, but the watercolors in Olafur Eliasson’s show opening today at Tanya Bonakdar in NYC look absolutely unreal to me. I keep waiting for the images to finish loading.
Olafur Eliasson: Your Psychoacoustic Light Ensemble, 24 Oct-19 Dec 2024 [tanyabonakdar]