Olafur Eliasson: Photographs Menil Publications and together with his wife

and together with his wife Caroline Huber—also a curator and artist who became codirector of Houston’s DiverseWorks—assembled an adventurous and diverse art collection

and selected works from their holdings

The Menil’s main building was designed by architect Renzo Piano to have domestic proportions in response to its residential setting

9 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches

This enlightening book makes an object-based argument to overturn the normative understanding of Byzantine “art” through material investigation

Olafur Eliasson: Photographs Menil Publications and together with his wifeOlafur Eliasson is known for his conceptual works based on architecture, science, and natural phenomena. Through his installationscomposed of materials such as ice, water, light, and metallic crystalline structureshe generates a close connection between the phenomenology of things and their surroundings. His work, as he himself puts it, questions the way we see and all the different systems of seeing. The first survey of Eliassons photographs, this