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Olafur Eliasson retrospective in London is a sensory feast

July 09 2019 02:01 AM

CP1097809781 — A visitor tries to orientate through a room full of fog called \'Your blind passenger\' as part of the exhibition Olafur Eliasson: \'In real life\' at the Tate Modern Gallery in London, Tuesday, July 9, 2019. The Tate Modern has brought together around 40 works of Eliasson. spanning the last three decades, and are on display from July 11, 2019 until January 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Original Publication Date: July 9, 2019 2:01AM

Publication Updated: April 20, 2025 7:49AM

LONDON – Visitors don’t just view the new London exhibition devoted to Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. They also feel, smell and taste it.

Eliasson creates large-scale works that draw on nature and natural elements: wood, fire, light, water. More than 40 of his pieces feature in the huge retrospective at London’s Tate Modern .

Visitors can be splashed by a waterfall, touch a moss-covered wall, feel a misty rainbow, cast colorful shadows and navigate a tunnel filled with multicolored fog.

Eliasson said Tuesday he hopes people “get a sense that the show is really there because (they) looked at it, and not the other way around. . When you look at that rainbow, is it in fact you consuming the colours, or is it you producing the colours?”

The show runs Thursday to Jan. 5.