The Tate Modern
I called into the Tate Modern the other weekend as I was strolling along the southern bank of the Thames (as you do). For those of you that have never been, the Tate Modern is London's relatively new modern art gallery. It is housed in a renovated power station and it really is an extraordinary place. You enter through the hall that used to house the turbines, and it is an absolutely massive space.
The Turbine Hall is home to the so-called Unilever Series, a series of commissions specifically for the Turbine Hall. At present it is occupied by a "labyrinth-like structure, entitled EMBANKMENT". The photos really don't do it justice. There was of course plenty of people shrugging their shoulders and muttering that they didn't "get it" and it is quite obvious that it doesn't correspond to what is normally viewed as a sculpture. The artist herself of course has plenty to say, that it "invoke[s] a sense of mystery surrounding the ideas of what a sealed box may contain". That is all very well and good, I just thought it was cool.
The Turbine Hall is home to the so-called Unilever Series, a series of commissions specifically for the Turbine Hall. At present it is occupied by a "labyrinth-like structure, entitled EMBANKMENT". The photos really don't do it justice. There was of course plenty of people shrugging their shoulders and muttering that they didn't "get it" and it is quite obvious that it doesn't correspond to what is normally viewed as a sculpture. The artist herself of course has plenty to say, that it "invoke[s] a sense of mystery surrounding the ideas of what a sealed box may contain". That is all very well and good, I just thought it was cool.
posted by Tim Mills | 7:56 PM
3 Comments:
Im going to see it when i get to london.... Not long now before the big moroc-exodus, do we have to wander in the desert for 40 years before we find the promised land or can we skip that part. Im all for the skipping.
i dare you to skip down the main street of Marrakesh
you mustnt shave your bit of stubble off tho. that would be unmanly.
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