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Olafur Eliasson b.1967

Drawing machine for all ellipses

2008
wood, aluminum, rope, graphite 2½ h × 11¾ w × 4 d in (6 × 30 × 10 cm)
estimate: $500–700
result: $693
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Work is comprised of a box containing two pencils, rope, two screws and three bearings. Branded and hand-written signature, title, date and numbered to box and insert 'Olafur Eliasson Drawing machine for all ellipses, 2008 Ed. 53/99'. This work is number 53 from the edition of 99. Sold with CD containing images related to use.
provenance: Neugerriemschneider, Berlin | Acquired from the previous in 2008 by the present owner

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A machine in the most minimal sense, Drawing machine for all ellipses consists of three grooved pulleys, a small piece of cord, and a stick of graphite. Two of the pulleys are fixed with screws to a flat surface, such as a wall, and the graphite is inserted through the third pulley. The cord is threaded between all three pulleys and stretched taught into a triangle. The user then pulls the third and unfixed pulley in either a clockwise or counterclockwise motion, keeping the graphite against the surface. Depending on the distance between the two fixed pulleys, a shorter or broader ellipse results as the graphite makes its orbit around them, dragged against the drawing surface.

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