They illuminate the sculptures with human figures that interact with Oursler's miniature worlds; they wriggle
across sheets of glass, bounce from corner to corner, and crawl over the surfaces of crudely shaped clay, eery distortions moving across the uneven surface.
Not exact matches
Since we only had letter
sheet yellow paper, we decided to show a fragment around the
glasses instead
of a big wide strip all the way
across.
There is also a sense
of tame psychedelia that pervades in all three artists» works, from Bergstrom's small formalist paintings that use text as a compositional device — a blue and white canvas that spells Bad Trip, abstractly scrawled
across the canvas — to Norton's An Altered State, where peyote and poppies are pressed between
sheets of glass and fired, installed on the wall.
The mirrored portion
of Eliasson's
sheet of glass multiplies its immediate surroundings and the tangled green aura beyond the windows; then, as the mirroring gives way to an expanse
of transparent
glass, it reveals the entrance hall behind, seen
across an internal courtyard in a confusion
of reflection and refraction.