Light and shadow can create a double baroque in the illusion. Baroque originated from Portuguese (BARROCO), which means "out-of-round pearl", and originally referred to pearls with strange shapes. When it comes to Baroque, gorgeous decorations, complex undulating patterns and colorful murals in churches or palaces always come to mind, full of passion and romance. Danish artist Olafur Eliasson skillfully used light and shadow to combine this romance with modern art and created a beautiful exhibition. The exhibition is called "Baroque Duet". Olafur Eliasson collected many important works of modern art from famous private collections such as Thyssen-bornemisza, a contemporary art center, and gathered them in the most famous Baroque building in Vienna-Meijing Palace. The palace with beautiful scenery is now the Austrian National Museum of Fine Arts and the winter palace of Prince Eugen. As a marshal of the Holy Roman Empire, prinz eugen is also an important lover of baroque art. In the beautifully decorated room of the Winter Palace, precious modern works of art and splendid ancient baroque architecture have had dialogues and exchanges. Under the influence of light scattering, reflection and projection, art and aesthetics of two different eras miraculously coordinated and unified.

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In the front hall, Eliasson's early work "Crystal Organic Fantasy Environment" is still a dream. Reflect blue and yellow light on walls, floors and ceilings through color filters, and combine with buildings with full lines. Being in it is like being surrounded by multiple light and shadow, and the feeling of space becomes blurred. There are many examples of this kind of color stripping in Eliasson's early works, such as Yellow Corridor and Five-color Lights. By letting the audience feel the separation and combination of colors, Eliasson hopes that the audience will understand that colors depend on other colors. Color is an important element to form a sense of space. The irradiation of single-frequency light makes the building lose its color, which makes the audience who walk up the steps easily lose their sense of direction and space, resulting in a reaction similar to "snow blindness". Five small lighthouses divide the environment into different parts and overlap each other to produce different colors of light. Eliasson arranged it in the upper palace of the Winter Palace, and the magnificent colors blended with the luxurious architectural patterns and lines of the marble hall, resulting in an unparalleled aesthetic feeling. Space collision

Are you curious about how the huge copper ring in the picture above hangs in the center of Nuoda Room? This is actually a kind of visual deception, which is the effect of mirror imaging. The wall on the left is a whole mirror. The five-meter semicircular copper ring on the wall forms a suspended complete circle through the mirror, which affects the normal definition of the space boundary by human eyes and makes people confused. This is a seven-meter-long hexagonal optical device, which consists of mirror plates inside, just like a kaleidoscope. Hanging from the ceiling of the hall also uses the reflection principle to decompose complex patterns and colors in the space into simple colors, brightness and other basic elements in the lens barrel. It is the exchange and combination of these elements that form a colorful realistic space, and the combination of modern technology and equipment and baroque realizes the collision between macro and micro. With the same kaleidoscope structure, this work emphasizes that everyone's perception and space are interdependent. When the audience opens along triangles, hexagons, diamonds and squares, the space changes from yellow to green and then to blue through the mapping of infinitely fragmented walls and floors. Shuttle between dream and reality

This work consists of crossed stainless steel tubes. Eliasson combined mathematics with baroque, and five groups of parallel lines were arranged at intervals according to the golden ratio, intersecting each other to produce angles of 108 degrees and 72 degrees. Numerous five-pointed star combinations overlap and are exquisite and dreamy. Olafur Eliasson was born in Iceland, and the Danish artist OLA fur Elias son was praised as "Da Vinci of contemporary art" by European and American media. He is an interdisciplinary magician who attaches great importance to ideas and makes good use of high technology. His works will span the study of light, science and technology, artificial nature, movement changes, strange time and space, breakthrough ideas, humanistic philosophy and so on. He emphasized the interactive relationship between the exhibition space and the audience's emotion, which sometimes has potential dangers. He has always questioned what reality is and tried his best to explore the boundaries of reality. Many works in the Baroque Baroque period are generally derived from the above ideas. At first glance, modern technology and works seem out of place, far from Baroque, but in fact, their goal is the same-to manipulate the viewer's perception. Baroque art expresses rich and unrestrained emotions through luxurious and gorgeous decoration, irregular arrangement, huge sense of space and three-dimensional sense, and works integrated into literature, drama and music, which brings strong sensory impact to the audience. Eliasson's starting point and practice may be different. His works aim to stretch the reality and manipulate the audience's perception. The exhibition needs the active participation of the audience. The ever-changing relationship between them and the space of their works will lead to different light, shadow and space, and even make participants question the way they perceive their works and space.

It must be said that light and shadow combine romance with modern art, creating a unique visual aesthetic feeling.

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