New York Times
May 12, 2006 | | Michael Kimmelman | | "This latest show by Olafur Eliasson is ingeniously good fun. Mr. Eliasson extracts from the legacies of hard-core Minimalists and Post Minimalists like Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, James Turrell and Richard Serra their inner Barnum. He combines theatricality with vaguely anachronistic, quasi-scientific, high-minded theories: the show's title, acronymized as ''Yes,'' is his motto for the interaction of viewer and work. There are allusions to camera obscuras and other antique optical devices. What results feels winkingly sly and fundamentally openhearted...." |
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