Sentences with phrase «like turbine hall»

Filling the 55,000 - square - foot (5,100 m) hall, the aim is to help the Armory reposition itself as a big - art destination like the Turbine Hall in London's Tate Modern.

Like Turbine Hall, it will be an urban hangout, with performances and, eventually, art installations.

Another reason I decided to highlight Sky's irresponsible advertising is because it contrasts so sharply with a conversation I had with the artist Tino Sehgal on Monday night at the opening of his These Associations exhibition in Tate Modern's cathedral - like turbine hall.

«Something like the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern — that's really just a kind of ongoing Artangel project.

Not exact matches

Empty Lot is the title of Abraham Cruzvillegas's new Turbine Hall installation for Tate Modern — a soaring plank and scaffolding construction veering like a ship's prow through the oceanic space, bearing aloft what amounts to a vast multi-part allotment.

The Turbine Hall is 500ft long and 75ft wide but, like Louise Bourgeois, Juan Muñoz and Anish Kapoor before him (the first three artists in the Unilever Series), Eliasson refused to be intimidated by this hungry maw.

Bourgeois is familiar to all of us as the creator of the enormous metal spider sculptures, like the ones that towered above dizzied spectators at the inauguration of Tate Modern's momentous Turbine Hall.

I remember reveling in the visual mystery of his enormous, blood red, skin like PVC installation at the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2003.

You'd have to be blind not to notice that, from a distance, Tacita Dean's commission for Tate Modern's sepulchral Turbine Hall looks like nothing so much as a vast stained - glass window — and for this reason I fervently hoped it was going to have the same effect on me as Olafur Eliasson's numinous The Weather Project (Eliasson's commission, the fourth in the Unilever series, filled this space in 2003 - 4 — and oh, how I worshipped it).

When people talk about epiphanies, they often sound like phonies — but the monumental artwork I encountered that day, Anish Kapoor's Marsyas, which dominated the Turbine Hall, certainly had a transformative effect upon me.

The Mexican conceptual artist's big Tate commission, «Empty Lot,» fills the Turbine Hall with a grid of planters containing soil from London parks; it may not look like much now, but it's likely to evolve over the course of the six - month show.

The Danish collective take over the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, while the visionary Pakistani artist brings his abstract, web - like works to Manchester

Their performances have included spilling oil like substances, installing a 16.5 m wind turbine blade in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, occupying the gallery overnight in a durational performance transcribing texts in charcoal onto the gallery floor, and giving permanent climate tattooturbine blade in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, occupying the gallery overnight in a durational performance transcribing texts in charcoal onto the gallery floor, and giving permanent climate tattooTurbine Hall, occupying the gallery overnight in a durational performance transcribing texts in charcoal onto the gallery floor, and giving permanent climate tattoos live.

One of the most successful postmodernist artists of his generation, he is best known for his site - specific abstract sculpture, like Cloud Gate (2004, Stainless steel, Millennium Park, Chicago) and Marsyas (2002, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern).

And in its dramatic Turbine Hall, the sense is that anything could be given house room if it deserved it — from Louise Bourgeois's towers (I Do, I Undo, I Redo, 2000; her tremendous steel spider had to wait outside) to Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project in 2003 or Rachel Whiteread's Embankment (2005)-- heaped white boxes, like sugar lumps for giants.

Using a mirrored ceiling and hundreds of monofrequency lamps (usually used for street lighting), Eliasson constructed the illusion of a vast sun that bathed the Turbine Hall in a sickly glow, and looked like nothing else in the history of art.

The next month, Tate Modern's Turbine Hall will be filled with an installation by Tino Sehgal, a Berlin - based artist whose works involve performers interacting with viewers, which Tate Modern's director, Chris Dercon, describes as «almost like a mental and bodily exercise».

Tate Modern Turbine Hall The artist's Empty Lot is like an allotment in winter — with the slight air of a displacement camp.

A soaring, light - filled space of more than 24,000 square feet, with glass roofs and polished Portuguese stone floors, it is the public face of the museum, and like the cavernous Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London, it can be visited without an entrance ticket.

The way Serra's work takes on, and alters, vast exhibition spaces like the Bilbao Guggenheim and the Grand Palais makes you wonder why he has never been commissioned to make a site - specific piece for the Turbine Hall in Tate Modern.

He is well known for his use of rich pigment and imposing, yet popular works, such as the vast, fleshy and trumpet - like Marsyas, which filled the Tate's Turbine Hall as part of the Unilever Series, the giant reflecting, pod like sculpture Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park and his recent record breaking show at the Royal Academy, the most successful exhibition ever presented by a contemporary artist in London.

Using various materials, Lee Bul constructs a circus like landscape that echoes the industrial architecture of Turbine Hall.

On Cockatoo Island, for instance, the South Korean artist Lee Bul — an artist with a longstanding connection to sci - fi through robots, cyborgs and anime - influenced sculptures — presents Willing To Be Vulnerable (2016), a gigantic installation in the Turbine Hall of draped and painted plastic sheets, an airship, a balloon, track lighting and ominous black figures that look like impaled and beheaded corpses.

Tate Modern has opted for the austere work of Polish artist Miroslaw Balka for its major Turbine Hall commission, avoiding the funfair - like installations of recent years in these recession - dampened times.