With a highly contagious pandemic to worry about, it’s easy for many people to forget about other pressing issues, not the least of which is the environment. Eliasson’s app, Acute Art, makes his collection of 10 digitally rendered sculptures called “WUNDERKAMMER” available for free. Among them are a boiling sun, a rain cloud, and the Aurora Borealis northern lights.

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“This artwork is about challenging our perception of the everyday and actively welcoming that which lies on the boundary between the known and the unknown,” Eliasson says in a statement. “It’s about creating spaces that meld the everyday and the extraordinary — spaces that evoke vivid perceptions and embodied engagement.”

Available via the Apple App Store and Google Play, the app allows you to discover, experience, and collect augmented reality artworks like WUNDERKAMMER and more. Use the app to virtually place the artwork around your home, adjust the shadow angle and light intensity to match the light in your space, or switch on the app’s “night mode” torch to light up the artwork at night. Then capture it in a photo or video to share it on social media.

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In a video released with the app, Eliasson demonstrates how it works, showing how you can physically move around the room while holding your phone up to see the artworks from different angles. It’s an interesting new way to make works by some of the world’s most sought-after artists accessible to anyone with a smartphone.

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Eight augmented reality works by American artist KAWS are also included with the Acute Art app, so you can see what your house looks like decorated with the artist’s massive murals or iconic giant inflatable sculptures.

“Now we are spending a lot of time indoors, so I thought, okay, let’s make a work of art which takes the outside inside,” Eliasson explains in the video. “Even though we can’t go out as much as we want to, it’s so important to kind of not forget that, once all of this is over, we have to look at our environment, we have to look at what is going on with regards to the things we care about so much.”

Raised in Iceland and Denmark, Eliasson graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Berlin and founding Studio Olafur Eliasson, which is now comprised of a large team of architects, craftspeople, archivists, researchers, art historians, and more. His art is “driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self” as he strives to create projects that highlight global concerns like climate change.

A thread of sustainability and connection to nature runs through much of his work, which continues here as WUNDERKAMMER presents themes of essential elements for life on Earth and the simultaneous destruction they can unleash.

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