Mirjam Varadinis, curator for contemporary art, wants to give the art of our time back its urgent polyphony.
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Olafur Eliasson’s marble ice cube is the latest work of art in the Kunsthaus collection.
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Diamond Beach in Iceland is a landscape in motion. With the beach of black volcanic sand, it is breathtakingly beautiful. The ocean currents drive huge blocks of ice out of the lagoons into the bay, where they melt, become transparent, dissolve and merge with the sea water in front of the spectacular tourists. The Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson and his team traveled to the black coast not out of hunger for an event, but out of sheer concern about the endangered nature. He measured the ice floes with a 3-D printer and then had them reproduced in Carrara marble. The white marble now appears shiny to the eye of the beholder like the ice.
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