June 20 – October 31, 2007




Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Pavilion will travel to the Island of Lopud, accompanied by a symposium: Your black horizon, a remarkable light installation by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, was commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and inaugurated in June 2005 as an official project at the 51st Venice Biennale of Visual Arts. London-based architect David Adjaye was engaged to work in close collaboration with Eliasson and to conceive an environment in which art and architecture were from the outset considered as one, “an interlocking equation”. Artist and architect shared the same, metaphorical, studio to engage to one another and to respond to the site specified for the pavilion. It is this relationship, one of engagement and response, and a constant revision of prescribed boundaries between disciplines, that Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary aspires to encourage on a broad and courageous scale.

The Art Pavilion is traveling to the island of Lopud, Croatia - just a few sea miles away from the UNESCO world heritage city of Dubrovnik. This distinctive location allows the artist and architect to test the conceptual program of the project: to develop art and the spaces for art in a binary process and with respect for the site they inhabit. Embedded in a historic context, Lopud’s rich Renaissance heritage and lively tourist development, the pavilion is a model for art destination travel and contemporary interventions.The challenge is to make a portable and temporary museum which sits comfortably in its surrounding natural site.

Your black horizon is indicative of Olafur Eliasson’s interest in the phenomenon of light, color, geometry, perception, movement, and space. From light-filled environments to walk-in kaleidoscopes, Eliasson’s participatory art engages the viewer in a situation of perception and a fresh reconsideration of everyday phenomena, as demonstrated by the “Weather Project”, which attracted 1.3 million visitors to the Tate Modern in London for the duration of the exhibition. In the Art Pavilion, a thin horizontal line directed through a narrow gap at eye level serves as the primary light source. The line runs around the black space, uninterrupted by any visual obstruction. This is the line that separates heaven and earth, a light in constant motion, changing color and rotating every few minutes through a cyclical spectrum calibrated to the specific light conditions of Lopud recorded in the course of a single day, from sunrise to sunset.

In collaboration with Arcus Dalmatia.

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