Ólafur Elíasson - „Tre verdener, to møder og et mellemværende“

Ólafur Elíassons artwork of polyhedras with dichroic colour effect glass:

Tre verdener, to møder og et mellemværende (Three worlds, two meetings and an unsolved conflict)

Tre verdener, to møder og et mellemværende (Three worlds, two meetings and an unsolved conflict), Eliasson’s artwork consists of two interrelated parts: three polyhedra suspended from the ceiling and three patterned mirrors on the back wall. The polyhedra are constructed from a combination of transparent glass and colour-effect filter glass, a special material that reflects certain wavelengths of light while allowing others to pass through. Fitted with light bulbs at their core, the forms cast geometric shadows onto the ceilings and surroundings.

The two solids hung on the outsides present a pentagonal hexecontahedron and a snub dodecahedron – so-called dual polyhedra. For every face on the one, there is a vertex on the other. Combining the two creates the compound form that hangs between them. This relationship is underlined by the proportion of colour-effect filter glass to clear glass in each form, with one polyhedron entirely clear, the other entirely glazed with colour-effect filter glass, and the compound incorporating a combination of the two.Tre verdener, to møder og et mellemværende (Three worlds, two meetings and an unsolved conflict), Eliasson’s artwork for Harsdorffs Hus, in Copenhagen, consists of two interrelated parts: three polyhedra suspended from the ceiling and three patterned mirrors on the back wall. The polyhedra are constructed from a combination of transparent glass and colour-effect filter glass, a special material that reflects certain wavelengths of light while allowing others to pass through. Fitted with light bulbs at their core, the forms cast geometric shadows onto the ceilings and surroundings.

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