He is known for his large public installations like his Water Falls through out New York and his Weather/Sun piece at the Tate Modern in London. This year when there was a focus on Scandinavian artists at the Armory, the show would not be complete with out a work by him. This piece a large piece of drift wood and a mirror is a resent example of works he is making for the market. Honestly the work first made me smile before I was aware it was a work by Eliasson as I am working with drift material a bit in some of my resent sculptures. When I learned it was an Eliasson I was even happier as I often look to his work as being some of the best works of our time but I never thought of him as a market artist, just really a public/ museum artist. Navigating what the this means is something I contemplate often and seeing that even Eliasson makes work for the collector makes me understand that there are no clear cut lines to what kind of works an artist makes and who the works are for.
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