Installation art on ARoS

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In the basement of ARoS Aarhus Art Museum you can experience a "gallery in progress" - the nine rooms reserved for international light, video and installation art. Here you see i.a. also Olafur Eliasson's contribution to the nine rooms among the ongoing installations and exhibitions.

Too Late by Elmgren & Dragset

The work takes the form of a nightclub for homosexuals the morning after a festive evening. The disco ball spins and the music in the background runs on repeat. Upon arrival, the music casts doubt on whether you have arrived late for a meeting with your loved one, or whether the singing voice, which scornfully repeats the phrase "too late", makes us aware that we have arrived late for the party.

Take Over by Anri Sala

Anri Sala believes that music appeals emotionally and in content more broadly and on more levels than words, and the approximately eight-minute work Take Over is an example of this. Here, Sala marks the link between the two national anthems La Marseillaise and L'Internationale, and he questions, among other things, the relationship between society and the individual. The work consists of a mixture of piano and electronic music. A free-standing glass wall divides the gallery in two, and the projections appear on both sides of it.

Milking III by James Turrell

One of the prominent artists who has been working with a spatial, open expression since the 1960s is the American light artist James Turrell (b. 1943). The Milkrun III light fixture consists of an artificial light. At the end of a corridor, the viewer encounters a red smoldering light field. The red color is refracted by a blue and yellow light that cuts like cracks into the surface, thus creating a three-dimensionality in the opal, diffuse light.

The luminous color field does not create a spectacular effect, rather a thoughtful and toned-down drama. The encounter with the work is a process of purification, where one does not think in pictures or words, but only senses.

Dawn hours in the neighbor's house by Pipilotti Rist

Dawn hours in the neighbor's house is a video installation that stages one of the banal but magical events of daily life: the dawn. Pipilotti Rist has established a living room (the neighbour's) with furniture, wallpaper, shelves and a window with potted plants.

The 24 hours of the day are reduced to 8 minutes when the living room is illuminated from the balcony. In the evening, the television is switched on with video images recorded by Pipilotti Rist himself. Video images, sound and light thus create different atmospheres, where human consciousness balances on the edge between a dream and waking state.

Surroundings by Olafur Eliasson

The work appears at first glance as an empty, white space that, when passing the doorstep to the room, turns upside down our expectations of darkness in the long corridors. What at first glance seems to be a typical white cube, however, literally turns out to move beyond and behind the modernist whiteness ideal. Eliasson has built an extra set of walls in the gallery, placed 60-100cm from the load-bearing walls, thereby reducing the white space. Peepholes and doorways divert attention away from the empty space, towards other work experiences, located in the newly created spaces. Mirrors installed in the floor, ceiling and sides kaleidoscopically multiply the viewer and his movements in the infinite spaces.

TomNa H-Iu by Mariko Mori

The work combines spirituality with cyber technology in a distinguished and relevant way. Tom Na H-Iu was the name of the ancient Celts for the place where human souls took up residence before they were reborn. For the Celts, Tom Na H-Iu took the form of a high stele, which was one of the most sacred, and to which the Celts made a pilgrimage as a place of worship. Mariko Mori has recreated this stele in frosted glass. With the help of computer technology, the work becomes a concrete meeting place for life and death, earth and heaven.

Installation art is a permanent exhibition at ARoS.

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