I think I just figured out where I could spend an entire day and never get bored. Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson recently finished his five year installation titled ‘Your rainbow panorama‘ – a brilliant, rainbow-hued viewing gallery on top of the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Denmark. A beautiful love poem to colour and vibrant addition to the cityscape that transforms as the light of each day changes. I particularly love the vibrant glow at night. If I am ever missing in Denmark, look here first! I’ll probably be the one looking dreamily out the magenta section or perhaps jumping up and down in the turquoise area…

In his artist statement, Olafur expands on how the viewing gallery works and the meaning behind the project: “Enveloped in the rainbow environment, you produce afterimages in hues complementary to the colours in the glass panes around you. If you look at the city through red glass, your eyes develop a green afterimage. If you maintain a quick pace, the colours remain vibrant. But if you pause in one colour zone, the hue around you grows pale while the colours in your peripheral vision, where the walkway curves, intensify. Colour intensities depend on your speed… The colour spectrum speaks to the museum collections below… Colour intensifies reality at all times.”

(photographs via Studio Olafur Eliasson)