Your black horizon
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson
Your black horizon, 2005
LED lights (red, green, blue), daylight, control unit, aluminum, translucent acrylic, wood
10 min 29 sec (cycle)
Overall dimensions variable
Commissioned by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye, Your black horizon Art Pavilion, Lopud, Croatia
Photo: Michael Strasser
Olafur Eliasson
Your black horizon, 2005
LED lights (red, green, blue), daylight, control unit, aluminum, translucent acrylic, wood
10 min 29 sec (cycle)
Overall dimensions variable
Commissioned by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye, Your black horizon Art Pavilion, Lopud, Croatia
Photo: Michael Strasser
Olafur Eliasson
Your black horizon, 2005
LED lights (red, green, blue), daylight, control unit, aluminum, translucent acrylic, wood
10 min 29 sec (cycle)
Overall dimensions variable
Commissioned by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye, Your black horizon Art Pavilion, Lopud, Croatia
Photo: Michael Strasser
Olafur Eliasson
Your black horizon, 2005
LED lights (red, green, blue), daylight, control unit, aluminum, translucent acrylic, wood
10 min 29 sec (cycle)
Overall dimensions variable
Commissioned by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: Olafur Eliasson and David Adjaye, Your black horizon Art Pavilion, Lopud, Croatia
Photo: Michael Strasser
- Date
- 2005
- Medium
- LED lights (red, green, blue), daylight, control unit, aluminum, translucent acrylic, wood
- Dimension
- 10 min 29 sec (cycle) Overall dimensions variable
- Credit
Commissioned by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection- This artwork is part of the donation and long-term loan from TBA21 to the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Details
Eliasson’s installation Your black horizon was commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and inaugurated as an official project at the 51st Biennale di Venezia (2005).
In 2007 the pavilion was installed in its permanent home on the island of Lopud in Croatia where it may be viewed during summer months. Working in close collaboration with the architect David Adjaye, Eliasson conceived an environment in which art and architecture can be considered as one “interlocking equation”.
Your black horizon is a room-sized installation comprising a thin horizontal line of light that emerges from a narrow gap in the black walls at eye level. The light continually changes color, passing through a full daily cycle of the colors of the local sky every fifteen minutes.
