Take Your Time

Museum of Contemporary Art
20 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago
IL 60611 | 312.280.2660

Take your time: Olafur Eliasson

Take your time: Olafur Eliasson is the first comprehensive survey in the United States of works by Olafur Eliasson, whose immersive environments, sculptures, and photographs elegantly recreate the extremes of landscape and atmosphere in his native Scandinavia. Drawn from collections worldwide, the presentation spans over fifteen years of Eliasson's career. His constructions, at once eccentric and highly geometric, use multicolored washes, focused projections of light, mirrors, and natural elements such as water, stone, and moss to shift the viewer's perception of place and self, foregrounding the sensory experience of each work. By transforming the gallery into a hybrid space of nature and culture, Eliasson prompts an intense engagement with the world and offers a fresh consideration of everyday life.

Through September 13, 2009.

[text and graphic from MCA website. Capiton: "Olafur Eliasson, Beauty, 1993. Installation view at AROS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2004; Collection Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles photo: Poul Pedersen."]

Starting with the Universe

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611-2643

Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
March 14 - June 21, 2009



"Philosopher. Forecaster. Designer. Poet. Inventor. Advocate of alternative energy.

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the greatest American thinkers of the 20th century -- and a visionary for the 21st. Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe is the first major US exhibition of Fuller's work in 35 years and a testament to his fascinating mix of utopian vision and organic pragmatism. A combination of models, sketches, and other artifacts -- many on view for the first time -- represent six decades of the artist's integrated approach to housing, transportation, communication, and cartography."

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[text and image from MCA website. Caption: "Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao , Dome Over Manhattan, ca. 1960. Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries. Image courtesy the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller."]