Tate Modern

The Red Moon

Hanging in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is immense.

On the left, Duchamp’s famous urinal at the Tate Modern in its protective case. On the right, some comedian signed the toilet seat cover in the men’s room stall at the Whitechapel Gallery in East London.

ReVoltairean Concept

Continuing my walk along the South Bank after seeing the Sugimoto exhibit at the Hayward Gallery, I came again to the Tate Modern with, for some reason, this quotation from the end of Voltaire’s Candide struck in lights on a frame at the back of a lawn where pigeons flatly rested. Uncanny.

Fountain

Couldn’t believe they had (the 1964 replica of) Duchamp’s famous urinal on display and I almost walked right past it. Also some suspended objets (below) that I don’t remember the story of.

Art Space

Jannis Kounellis

Wall of Coloured Glass (part of the larger installation, Coal Sculpture with Wall of Coloured Glass, 1999). A Greek artist working in Rome in the arte povere school, Jannis Kounellis also produced the below.

Haegue Yang

An interesting sculptural piece that plays with Sol LeWitt concepts. Click on the images below to see them enlarged.

Tate Modern Windows

Continuing with the theme of museums’ use of geometry, here’s a look at (and through) windows at the Tate Modern. Click any of the images below to see them larger.

Art Space

I continue to be struck by museums and galleries’ use of space. All the whiteness, openness, vastness and what this says about wealth in the hegemonic metropolises. This is particularly seen in empty space, and the use of geometry in defining spaces like staircases. The Tate Modern is a little bit of a special case, situated as it is in a former power station but the vastness of the space continues to echo the theme. Click on any of the images below to see them full sized.