Gallery: An Art Installation Master Turns a Museum Into a Rock-Strewn Creekbed

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    Olafur Eliasson, the artist known for bewitching viewers with larger-than-life pieces made of light and water, has a new exhibit up at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.
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    The *Riverbed* installation is a recreation of a rock-filled creek he stumbled upon while hiking in Iceland.
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    To create it Eliasson brought 180 tons of bluestone back from the southern coast of Iceland.
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    To mimic the Icelandic daylight (“a dry white, on the edge of getting drizzly,” Eliasson says), he worked with an Austrian lighting company that specializes in tuning light to create custom LEDs.
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    Visitors can walk all over it, and even pick up and move stones around, giving the exhibit a tactile, low-tech interactive element.
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