http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-eliasson29apr29,2,539633.story?coll=cl-home-top-blurb-right
A local review of the installation experience
http://www.jnwnklmnn.de/elias_e.htm
The Maestro, meditatively driving golf balls
"Meant to be lived in"
Noted installation artist Olafur Eliasson
(of Denmark, Berlin, and Rejkjavik) has taken
over a small family home in Pasadena
for artistic purposes.
While the owners of the "Jamie Residence"
are off in Europe, Eliasson has
blacked out every window in the home and
installed a host of prisms, filters, mirrors
and projection screens.
It's called "Meant to be lived in," and it is part and
parcel of this environmental / installation artist's
impatience with formal galleries. The upshot is neither
a house nor a gallery. It's quiet, eerie, stuffy, sepulchral,
and hot, and it looks like your nutty uncle, the
guy who tinkers incessantly in the garage, suddenly
lost all sense of proportion and seized absolute
power over the building.
It's open Thursdays through Saturdays. It costs
nothing. There's no museum store. No t-shirts.
No posters, no fridge magnets (although there
is a working fridge). It's just sort of.... GLIMMERING THERE.
I quite like this place. It suits me. Since it
is "meant to be lived in" and it's just a few
blocks from work, I think I'm going to take
my laptop, move into the place during its open hours,
live there, and get some writing done.
