In ‘Nel Tuo Tempo’, a major show at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi, Olafur Eliasson bends perceptions of Renaissance architecture through dazzling site-specific installations
Photography: Ela Bialkowska/ OKNOstudio
Palazzo Strozzi sits like a lump of solid geology in the centre of Florence. With walls formed of oversized rusticated stone blocks, it has the feel of a fortress: thick, defensive, with a grid of double windows wrapping its four sides. ’ dazzling orbs, as well as Donatello’s sculptures. In his new show, ‘Nel Tuo Tempo’, Olafur Eliasson has become the latest to fill the Renaissance rooms, in his words ‘with nothing but ephemera – water, temperature, light’.Photography: Ela Bialkowska/ OKNOstudio
The first three rooms feature new site-responsive works, ideas so rooted in the palazzo’s architecture that it is hard to imagine how they could ever be exhibited elsewhere. Eliasson focuses on the palazzo’s windows, which puncture those thick, defensive façades, to open conversation between internal spaces and the civic realm beyond.
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