Sentences with phrase «monumental turbine hall»
To accompany the retrospective, «For the Love of God» (2007)-- a platinum cast of a human skull set with 8,601 flawless pavé - set diamonds — is on exhibition in the Tate Modern's monumental turbine hall.
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Known for his massive installations built from industrial materials that take the menace implicit in Minimalism and throttle it into overdrive, the Polish Mirosław Bałka is well known on the European museum and biennial circuit — his 2009 work in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, which resembled a monumental cattle car (with a ramp leading visitors into its pitch - black interior), stunned audiences — but he has only shown rarely in New York.
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.
Projects featured include House (1993) a monumental cast of a nineteenth - century terrace house in the East End of London for which she won Britain's Turner Prize, the Water Tower (1998) which graced the skyline of downtown New York, Vienna's Holocaust Memorial (2000), Monument (2001) created for the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, and Embankment (2005 - 2006) installed in the Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall.
The museum - going public, meanwhile, developed a taste for the novel and the monumental through Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commissions, such as the sodium - coloured sun and Turner-esque fog of Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project (2003).
A deconstructed canopy of ropes hung above and under the Turbine Hall bridge, the monumental installation enhances the Turbine Hall's unique street - wide scale and entices mass public processional performance.
I was witnessing firsthand how the monumental scale of Turbine Hall disrupted the quiet triangulation between the viewer's body, the artwork and the gallery.
The vast Turbine Hall is filled with monumental replicas of iconic sculptural works.