SFMoMA Museum of Modern Art

Your tempo: Olafur Eliasson

08 Sep 2007 - 13 Jan 2008

Olafur Eliasson
Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, 2007
View at Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, 2007
BMW H2R chassis, stainless steel, copper, aluminum, ice, and cooling unit
Courtesy the artist
© 2007 Olafur Eliasson
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your tempo: Olafur Eliasson
September 08, 2007 - January 13, 2008

Olafur Eliasson has created a new work of art as part of a long-running art car program sponsored by BMW. His work transforms BMW’s H2R hydrogenpowered race car, shrouding the alternative-fuel vehicle in a new skin of steel mesh, mirror-coated stainless steel, and many layers of ice to focus our attention on the relation between car design and global warming. This exhibition features the frozen vehicle, titled Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, in its first public and sole U.S. presentation, in conjunction with the Eliasson survey exhibition. The vehicle is accompanied by a suite of photographs and a short film focusing on a series of workshops in the artist’s studio.
 

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