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Stunning installations merging life and art are part of a major restropective of artist Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern in London.
"In Real Life" invites visitors to touch and interact with the pieces that also highlight climate change, in order to take the art experience beyond the museum's walls to make a difference in the world.

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Visitors don't just view the London exhibition devoted to Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.
They also feel, smell and taste it.
Eliasson has created large-scale works that draw on nature and natural elements: wood, fire, light, water. More than 40 of his pieces feature in the huge retrospective at London's Tate Modern .
Visitors can be splashed by a waterfall, touch a moss-covered wall, feel a misty rainbow, cast colorful shadows and navigate a tunnel filled with multicolored fog.
Despite the atmospheric lights and mirrors, however, this is not a dream world, the artist insists:
"When I called the exhibition 'In Real Life' I wanted to suggest a few things. First of all, when you step into a museum you don't step out of the real world into sort of a dream world. You actually step even closer. It's like seeing reality in a higher definition, in higher granularity."
The nature of perception, what is real and how we engage with the reality of what surrounds us, is one of the themes running through the diverse body of decades of his work.
"The exhibition here - works from 30 years - has dealt with questions around ecology, sustainability, but also just atmosphere and ephemera. How do I touch what is normally considered untouchable? Like the air, or the ephemera of the world in which we live. How do I take something that I don't understand, (such as) data about the glaciers, and I make it tangible? What does that have to do with me as a little person in civic society? Can I even do something as a single person? And obviously I would like to think if we can convince people - yes, a single person can do something. Then it actually makes a huge difference." insists Eliasson.
Other artworks include the "Moss wall" - a 20-metre wide surface covered with Scandinavian moss.
Mark Godfrey is the Tate Modern's senior curator of international art:
"Olafur's works are ones that have to be seen in real life. Looking at pictures of them on your screens or on your Instagram feed will never be a substitute to being in the space with them. For instance the Moss wall smells. You won't get that if you're looking at a picture of it."
Eliasson's fascination with nature gives his work a powerful ecological message that has grown more urgent with time.
In the past, he has tried to make climate change visceral by bringing chunks of Greenland glacier to melt in public spaces in streets of London, Paris and Copenhagen. The Tate show includes a series of 42 photos of Icelandic glaciers taken in 1999. Eliasson plans to update the photographic exhibit with images taken this year to illustrate how human-driven climate change is altering the landscape.
Godfrey says "He (Olafur Eliasson) thinks that sometimes the climate emergency is communicated only in a discourse of fear, and wants to change the way we think about it to a discourse of enjoyment and love. You know, what do I love about the world? And why should I care about it?"
Tate is making efforts to go green, and has held meetings gathering together artists and environmental activists. All the works on display in the Eliasson exhibition were transported to London by sea and land - no airplanes were used.
The exhibition runs until 5 January 2020.

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