London
ARTIST: Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing
PHOTO: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Ice Watch
Experience
Installation
Sculptures
Ice
Water
Top-down
Above 150.000 EUR
Artist
Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing.
Location
Outside Tate Modern.
Contact
Website: https://icewatchlondon.com/
Olafur Eliasson
The artist, Olafur Eliasson, was raised in Holbæk. This project has not been initiated by the municipality of Holbæk, but it is relevant to the Land-Sea Art project as an example of how art, in a very physical and direct way, can put focus on political issues and the climate crisis.
ARTIST: Olafur Eliasson
PHOTO: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Political art
Art may have the answer to how to succeed in doing something about the climate issue.
Climate is an increasingly discussed topic in art and what art can do is to create some of the questions to go around and discuss in words.
ARTIST: Olafir Eliasson and Minik Rosing
PHOTO: Studio Olafur Eliasson
The interesting thing about this way of tackling the climate issue is that the large blocks that lay like sculptures disappeared before our eyes. One could touch them and listen to them, so it had sensuous, sculptural, and political dimensions.
Art can do something else; it can create sensual and tactile spaces. The sensations create other experiences than those of rational debating.
Karen Grøn, Director at Trapholt
Blocks of ice from Greenland
Each block of ice weighed between 1.5 and 6 tonnes. Fished out of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord, they had already been lost from the ice sheet and were melting into the ocean. The Greenland ice sheet loses 10,000 such blocks of ice a second throughout the year. Fishing these blocks of ice from the sea did not affect the quantity of ice in Greenland.
ARTIST: Olafur Eliasson
PHOTO: Studio Olafur Eliasson
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