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Winter Warmer

Londoners could come in from the cold in style this winter, thanks to Danish artist Olaful Eliasson's ingenious installation in the Capital's Tate Modern gallery.

By Pete Sawyer

Conversations about the weather seem to dominate British life. The eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson famously remarked ‘It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.’

Olafur Eliasson took this subject as the starting point for an exploration of ideas about experience, mediation and representation. His resultant work, "The Weather Project", the fourth in the annual Unilever Series of commissions for the Turbine Hall, became an instant hit with Londoners anxious to come in from the cold dreary English winter.

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2004-05-01

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Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson's work has appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide, and in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Deste Foundation, Athens and the Tate.

Recently he has had major solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe.

He was born in 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and attended the Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. He lives and works in Berlin.

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