Turner inspired various contemporary Danish-Icelandic artists

Turner's profound engagement with subjects that were not just ahead of their time but are still relevant today was proved by this extraordinary reception of a pre-modern master's work by a museum dedicated to contemporary art. Turner inspired various contemporary Danish-Icelandic artists. The young artist Olafur Eliasson has investigated the use of light and color in a selection of seven Turner paintings in his series of new works by abstracting the colors into vibrant color studies. These new pieces are connected to an ongoing series of Color experiment paintings that Eliasson started in 2009 in which he collaborated with a scientist to create a paint color for each nanometer of visible light. The seven oil paintings in the series each explore a different aspect of Turner's passion for light and color.

"My art has been greatly influenced by Turner's skill in sculpting and framing light in his paintings. Ephemera has always been a focus of mine as a way to investigate ideas of metamorphosis, movement, and atmosphere, as well as how our sense of self is something that is constantly altering as a result of our numerous interactions with others and the outside world. To separate Turner's sense of ephemera from the objects of desire that his paintings have evolved into, I've separated light and color in Turner's color experiments. The spherical canvases' schematic color arrangements create an impression of endlessness and enable the observer to approach the artwork in a dispersed, wandering manner." - Being a well-known Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson states.