BOOK:Baroque Baroque, Sternberg Press

Accompanying Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition “BAROQUE BAROQUE” at the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy in Vienna, the catalogue examines some of the trajectories and thought experiments raised by the encounter between artworks and the baroque, both physically and conceptually. It proposes a reading of Eliasson’s art in the midst of historical and metaphorical figures such as Leibniz, Lacan, Loyola, Prince Eugene of Savoy, and baroque apparatuses such as the mirror, the crystal palace, and the cabinet of curiosities, thus contextualizing the exhibition within a discourse particularly rich in innovations, paradoxes, distortions, and exaggerations. The various voices assembled in this publication untangle questions around how transformations of space, perception and cognition reflect the realms of politics, technology, baroque theater, and the Anthropocene.-Efi Michalarou