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Einar Thorsteinn

(Iceland, 1942-2015)
Estimate
80 000 - 100 000 SEK
7 600 - 9 500 EUR
7 980 - 9 980 USD
Covered by droit de suite

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Finland: Kuvasto

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Einar Thorsteinn
(Iceland, 1942-2015)

"Your private FANG"

Signed Einar Thorsteinn and dated 2006, as well as numbered N.004 on the label verso. Produced in collaboration with Studio Olafur Eliasson. Wall object with 4 paintings on canvas and a three-dimensional metal sculpture mounted on a wooden frame, 56 x 56 x 24 cm.

Provenance

Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, Denmark.

More information

About Einar Thorsteinn and Modern Museet
Commenting on Model room, Olafur Eliasson says:
”Model room arranges most of the models created for my artworks over the last two decades – realised and unrealised – into a new artwork. It is as if
nearly every thought I had in my studio during that time now lives in the urban landscape that is Model room. In this sense, it holds the very DNA of my
work in a generous, spatial archive, and I consider it a centrepiece of my artistic oeuvre.
”In developing and realising my artworks, I always work together with many people. A key protagonist in the studio team during the time period
represented by Model room was the late Einar Thorsteinn, a visionary Icelandic architect and mathematician, whose interest in non-Euclidean geometry
and fivefold symmetry became central to my work. Model room testifies to my long-standing collaboration and friendship with Einar.
”For some years now, I have been looking for a permanent home for Model room, a museum with a strong commitment to spatial and conceptual issues,
public discourse, and a precise conservation policy. I couldn’t imagine a better home for Model room than Moderna Museet.”
Olafur Eliasson’s work Model room (2003) is a landscape of geometric models and objects, started in 1996 and created by the artist in collaboration with
the Icelandic mathematician and architect Einar Thorsteinn. Over the years, Model room has evolved into a three-dimensional archive, a collection of
materialised ideas, of which the more recent have been developed and implemented as installations, pavilions and monumental projects. The new work
Less ego wall (2015), for instance, originated in geometric experiments visible in Model room.
Model room is the heart, or perhaps the brain, of Olafur Eliasson’s artistic practice. It is here we can see
how his art evolves – all his other works are present in this fantasy landscape. Thanks to the foundation of
Anna-Stina Malmborg and Gunnar Höglund, one of the key works of contemporary art now belongs to the
Swedish people. Comments on the acquisition by Daniel Birnbaum, director of Moderna Museet