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Feeding the flame of my passion for large-scare installation art (and, who are we kidding, innovative Icelanders) is the forthcoming Ólafur Elíasson retrospective “Take Your Time,” en route from San Francisco to the New York City MoMA.  Elíasson’s work ping-pongs between the organic and the industrial and manages to merge the two in-between.  At times he favors ephemeral, transient materials like ice, mist and steam; creating rainbows, dying rivers and making water flow uphill.  But he also likes tricks, often ones that rely on technology or science:  encompassing tunnels and cocoons that show something moving when it’s actually still or something still that moves; something you can see with your eyes closed—pieces that provoke the participant into “seeing themselves seeing,” as the artist puts it.  

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