Guardian awards five stars to Elíasson's Contact
"The doors of perception are blasted wide open in this exhibition, and you gaze on caverns measureless," says Jonathan Jones about Contact at the Louis Vuitton foundation in Paris. Photo Ivwan Baan - from olafureliasson.net
Art critic for The Guardian, Jonathan Jones, was impressed by Ólafur Elíasson's latest exhibiton, Contact, at the Louis Vuitton foundation in Paris. "Romantic art is not dead. It glows on, a blazing horizon, in the work of Olafur Eliasson," writes Jones who gives the exhbition five stars out of five. Jones recently wrote a positively scathing review of painter Maggi Hambling
"Contact" opened yesterday and is open until February 16th. Eleven years ago, Elíasson's Weather Project received rave reviews at the Tate Modern.
"In his new installation in the stomach of Frank Gehry’s cubist fish of a building that houses the Louis Vuitton foundation, Eliasson equals or even tops his Tate spectacle. This is art that delivers a mental rush. It is not afraid to transport you, to do something to your mind," states Jones.
Read the full review HERE.
