Now on bbc news its hardtalk with Zeinab Badawi. Welcome hardtalk with Zeinab Badawi. To hardtalk with m badawi welcome to hardtalk with me, Zeinab Badawi from tate modern in london where my guest has a major exhibition. He is the Award Winning icelandic danish artist 0liver for aliasing. He believes that art can change the world. This is one of his exhibits. A giant wall made of moss and this is to get people digging differently about the environment. For instance, could our buildings of the future be made with more Sustainable Materials . Is this kind of thinking visionary or simply far fetched 0lafur eliasson. Welcome to hardtalk. You had an extremely unorthodox upbringing. Your parents were extremely young when they had you, your mother 20, yourfather i9. Born in iceland, moved to denmark. Your mother was a seamstress, your father a cook. How did your early life influence you, in your work . Well, my father moved back to iceland and i would spend my vacations in iceland, running ar
Now on bbc news its hardtalk. Zeinab badawi speaks to the icelandic danish artist Olafur Eliasson at the tate modern in london. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi, from the tate modern in london, where my guest has a major exhibition. He is the Award Winning danish icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. He believes that artists can change the world by, for instance, attempting to tackle Climate Change. This is one of his exhibits, a giant wall made of moss, and the idea is to get people thinking differently about the environment. For instance, could our buildings of the future be made from more Sustainable Materials . Is this kind of thinking visionary, or just simply far fetched 7 Olafur Eliasson, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You had a fairly unorthodox upbringing. Your parents were extremely young when they had you, your mother 20, yourfather 19. Born in iceland, moved to denmark. Your mother was a seamstress, your father a cook. How did your early life influence you,
Now on bbc news tuesday in parliament. Time now for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk from tate modern in london where my guest has a major exhibition. He is the Award Winning icelandic danish artist. He believes that art can change the world by, for instance, tackling Climate Change. This is one of his exhibits, a giant wall made of moss. The idea is to get people thinking differently about the environment, for instance, could buildings of the future be made more sustainably . Is this sort of thing visionary or far fetched . Olafur eliasson, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You had a fairly unorthodox upbringing. Your parents were extremely young when they had you, your mother 20, yourfather i9. Born in iceland, moved to denmark. Your mother was a seamstress, your father a cook. How did your early life influence you, in your work . Well, my father moved back to iceland and i would spend my vacations in iceland, running around in nature while he was painting. He also worked as an ar
Now on bbc news its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk from tate modern in london where my guest has a major exhibition. He is the Award Winning icelandic danish artist. He believes that art can change the world by, for instance, tackling Climate Change. This is one of his exhibits, a giant wall made of moss. The idea is to get people thinking differently about the environment, for instance, could buildings of the future be made more sustainably . Is this sort of thing visionary or far fetched . Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi, Olafur Eliasson, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You had a fairly unorthodox upbringing. Your parents were extremely young when they had you, your mother 20, yourfather 19. Born in iceland, moved to denmark. Your mother was a seamstress, your father a cook. How did your early life influence you, in your work . Well, my father moved back to iceland and i would spend my vacations in iceland, running around in nature while he was painting. He also wo
The first 15 years of the 20th century saw changes in the theory and practice of art among modern artists in western europe which were so remarkable theyve been compared with the great advances made in science and technology at the same time. Theres no simple explanation for why this period was so dynamic, nor was the dynamism confined to one center. Although paris had long been the focus of modernism, it had its rivals in brussels, barcelona, and munich. But it was a time of growing tension in western culture, of continued rapid industrialization, of imperialism abroad and rivalry within the states of europe, and, at the same time, scientific breakthroughs, which not only questioned our way of seeing the world, but the very nature of reality itself plancks quantum theory, einsteins theory of relativity, freuds work on psychoanalysis. It was in 1900 that freud wrote his interpretation of dreams, a prophetic work in view of the tragedies of modern western history. Freud wrote and publis