Light and Color
This picture shows huge slanting disc-shaped mirror suspended horizontally from a gallery ceiling. Actually the piece is called ‘’Take Your Time’’, which is also the name of exhibition in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
‘’Take’’ put into words an innovation, a sharing. ‘’Your’’ suggest community. ‘’Time’’-we all know about that. Everyone has some of it and nobody has much or enough. Museums are built to freeze time and other things too like ethics and history.
‘’Take Your Time’’ is by Olafur Eliasson who is spectacular artist. In his works door are not doors, waterfalls flow upward, a rotating metal fan, propelled by its own wind power. This is art that teases and even a little humiliates.
Mr. Eliasson’s art is a different kind and deals, some would say, a different kind of activism, a politics of enchantment.In these ways it offers a model for a future art beyond the present rummage-sale glut. In others ways, though, it reminds us how far in the current decade art has not come.
