As Tate Modern reveals
its latest Turbine Hall blockbuster, Jonathan Jones gives his verdict on which installations have worked best so far, and which have failed to rise to the enormous challenge
Tate Modern's
latest Turbine Hall commission coincides with a retrospective at Whitechapel Gallery and a new pubication looking specifically at Tuttle's work with textiles.
Not exact matches
Philippe Parreno, a French artist who works across film, video, sound, sculpture, performance and information technology has his Tate
Turbine Hall commission unveiled
later today.
There is something very English about Dean's
latest work in Tate's
Turbine Hall, so why do we call her a British artist?
The Tate Modern
Turbine Hall's
latest project was unveiled and turned out to be a garden deck with weeds growing in pots — a work whose ecological message is banal and visually null.
In 2003, Eliasson represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale with The blind pavilion and,
later that year, he opened the celebrated work The weather project at Tate Modern's
Turbine Hall.
Abraham Cruzvilllegas at Tate Modern
Turbine Hall The
Turbine Hall is an excellent exhibition space but observant visitors of
late will have noticed it has lain fallow since Richard Tuttle's large, yet underwhelming, piece was taken down in April.
The
latest instalment of Britain's largest contemporary art commission was unveiled in the
Turbine Hall this morning: a vast carpet of porcelain replica sunflower seeds assembled by artist Ai Weiwei
When Tate Modern announced recently that it had commissioned him to fill its
Turbine Hall later this year, it was a welcome reminder of his work, which in recent times has become almost overshadowed by his social and political criticism.
Compared with the daring and intelligence of the best
Turbine Hall commissions the
latest work here looks lazy and complacent, as if unbothered by the challenge, uninterested in winning an audience.
Parreno is the
latest artist to fill the huge and challenging
Turbine Hall space.
Poppy red, marigold orange and, if visitors look closely enough, midnight blue fabrics have been shaped, draped and suspended as an enormous sculpture in the
latest commission for the
Turbine Hall ay Tate Modern in London.
Oliafur Eliasson, the Danish - Icelander whose Weather Project made the sun rise in Tate Modern's
Turbine Hall in a haze of shimmering vapour, feels just the artist to complement an exhibition of Turner's
late paintings.
Moderately intrigued by the motion in the
Turbine hall I verntured there, and two hours
later, 5 interactions
later, I was still there.
«1000» a performance piece by Paola Pivi, Sunday 24 May, 17.00,
Turbine Hall Bridge Adding to the lively atmosphere of the
Turbine Hall during the day, a newly commissioned, one - off performance devised by contemporary artist Paola Pivi will form the
latest instalment in the artist's characteristically playful, irreverent and sometimes surreal oeuvre.
100 Million porcelain seeds are part of the
latest installation at the Tate Modern's
Turbine Hall gallery.
Olafur represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and
later that year installed The Weather Project in the
Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London.
The
latest artwork for the giant space of Tate Modern's
Turbine Hall has been unveiled - a homage to film by artist Tacita Dean.
Tate Modern reveals the
latest commission to fill the vast
Turbine Hall by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas
Tate Modern's
latest spectacular show in the
Turbine Hall coincides with the Frieze fair and a proliferation of gallery displays.
You don't have to do it that way round but, if you visit Tate Modern first, at least you will give the
latest of its
Turbine Hall commissions the benefit of the doubt.
The release of the app coincides with the 10th Unilever Series Commission for Tate Modern's
Turbine Hall and was inspired by the
latest large - scale installation to take over the space.
It will get the crowds, of course - everything in the
Turbine Hall does - and some people will be so impressed by the size of the collection of public sculpture and the drama of the setting, so determined to enjoy the
latest the 21st century has to offer, they will kid themselves it's worthwhile.
Tate Modern
Turbine Hall October 14, 2008 - April 13, 2009 Tate Modern unveils the
latest commission in The Unilever Series.
A futuristic shelter for besieged Londoners inspired by the July 7 bombings and the Blitz was unveiled yesterday as the
latest installation to fill Tate Modern's vast
Turbine Hall.
He was to do something rather similar when he created an over-size, unplayable, double - headed bugle form called Marsyas in Tate Modern's
Turbine Hall some years
later.
This is the
latest installation in Tate Modern's
Turbine Hall — a series of wow - factor installations that have, over the past decade, included Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth, a deep fissure running through the concrete floor of the building, and Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, which filled the space with mist and mirrors.
As for the trade show, the
halls of the Bali International Convention Center here have been lined with booths touting everything from wind
turbines to the
latest GIS approaches for tracking forest carbon and monitoring deforestation.