Olafur Eliasson conjures a delightful grotto of lights and wonder in Paris

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
The alchemist of the art world effortlessly transports us into the sublime with a warren-like world of awe-inspiring optical illusions

Romantic art is not dead. It glows on, a blazing horizon, in the work of Olafur Eliasson.

Eleven years ago, Eliasson set the Turbine Hall at London’s Tate Modern alight with a gigantic illusory sun that was the most seductive and entrancing project ever staged there. It became a psychedelic happening, where people lay on the floor, stoned on light, as if we had wandered inside a Turner painting and were dancing like his peasant revellers on the banks of some golden ocean.

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