DALLAS.- The Dallas Museum of Art presents this fall the internationally acclaimed exhibition Take your time: Olafur Eliasson. This exhibition gathers works from major public and private collections worldwide and spans Eliasson’s diverse range of artistic production from 1993 to the present, including installations, large-scale immersive environments, freestanding sculpture and photography.

The Dallas presentation of this exhibition, the third U.S. venue of an international tour that Time magazine named one of the best exhibits of the year, will display several of the works previously shown in San Francisco, where the show originated, and New York and will add new pieces to the touring exhibition that have yet to be seen in the U.S.

This first full-scale survey of approximately 20 of Eliasson’s works “cements the 40-year-old artist’s reputation,” said the Los Angeles Times; the New York Times called his work “enchanting, spacious, evanescent and intellectually stimulating.” “He is one of the most ingenious, far-sighted and productive artists working today,” wrote the Wall Street Journal, “motivated by complex philosophical and social theories and yet immensely popular with crowds.”

“Eliasson likes to be emotional and likes that his work provokes emotions,” said María de Corral, The Hoffman Family Adjunct Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art and the organizing curator of the Dallas presentation. “As he says, ‘being emotional does not imply just feelings, but also a social responsibility.’ Eliasson is interested in the physical, social and political aspects of his work, and for this reason he tries to narrate experiences and produce reactions in the viewer,” de Corral continues. “As visitors to this exhibition will see, for Eliasson, the viewer’s experience is important, and here, the title tells us more about that experience: Take your time refers to ‘the time the viewer decides to invest in looking at the work of art, and the time that the work of art engages the viewer and makes him/her stay to experience it.’”

Eliasson is among the most influential and widely acclaimed artists of his generation. From light-filled environments to walk-in kaleidoscopes, his uniquely participatory works offer alluring spaces that harness optical cognition and meteorological elements, examine the intersection of nature and science, and explore the boundary between the organic and artificial.

Take your time: Olafur Eliasson is designed to encourage viewers to understand the range of this artist’s methodology, with each gallery demonstrating one of five fundamental aspects of his practice: a distinctive use of mirrors to displace the viewer’s perception of both object and self; an exploration of light and optical phenomena via immersive environments that rely upon the viewer for full effect; a deep attention to and manipulation of landscape referents; a disposition toward scientific methods and materials, including the willful exposure of the creative process; and, finally, photographic suites of the Icelandic landscape.

Included in Take your time are approximately 20 of what are considered his most outstanding and mind-blowing works including Beauty (1993), a curtain of mist that shows something different to each viewer; Jokla Series (2004), a set of 48 chromogenic color prints; and 360º room for all colours (2002), which makes spectators acutely aware of vision’s active role in Eliasson’s artwork; Moss wall (1994), a solid wall of living Icelandic moss; Tunnel (2007) ; and Afterimage Cinema (2008), a new piece in the exhibition that is currently on view in Europe and will be presented in a larger version in Dallas.