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Quay Quarter Tower



The work’s yellow colour connects it to a rich continuum of works by the artist ranging from The Weather Project to Little Sun, the small, chirpy-yellow–coloured, solar-powered LED lamps developed by Eliasson and solar engineer Frederik Ottesen to provide clean, affordable and renewable light to the many communities worldwide without access to electricity. But the yellow of Roof for stray thoughts is an intriguingly different yellow, evocative of sulphur and the volcanoes of Iceland where Eliasson was born.
            The sculpture exhibits a deep understanding of the power of architecture as well as the power of art. The connection between art and architecture expresses itself in visual correspondences like the relationship of the sculpture’s network of arcs to the lines of the 3XN façade. But the artwork transcends any obvious relationships to become a category in its own right – much like the artist’s projects with his collaborator, Sebastian Behmann, Head of Design at Studio Olafur Eliasson, which are posited somewhere between art and architecture. The two founded Studio Other Spaces (SOS) in 2014 and have created structures that are hard to categorise, such as Fjordenhus in Vejle, Denmark (2018).
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