This is a Little Sun, a small solar-powered lamp designed to provide indoor light in off-the-grid locations, especially third-world countries where power may be intermittent or unavailable. It was conceived and designed by artist Olafur Eliasson and Frederik Ottesen and is priced in such a manner that when affluent Americans and Europeans purchase Little Sun, it helps make it available at about half the price in off-the-grid locations.
Also: Check out the Little Sun Tumblr! And pick one up here for $25. The Tate Modern recently featured Little Sun in this exhibition.
Eliasson is my guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast. Among the subjects we discuss is his Little Sun project. An exhibition of Eliasson’s newest photographs — featuring his ancestral homeland of Iceland — opens next week at Chelsea’s Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Also, Taschen has just published a new edition of “Studio Olafur Eliasson,” a 532-page ‘encylopedia’ of Eliasson’s studio practice. (It’s available on Amazon for $25, a 40 percent discount.)
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