Sentences with phrase «vast turbine hall»

The vast Turbine Hall is filled with monumental replicas of iconic sculptural works.

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.

From today visitors to Tate Modern are able to travel through the vast Turbine Hall on five large slides which spiral through the vast space connecting the galleries with the Hall.

Tate Modern reveals the latest commission to fill the vast Turbine Hall by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas

During its celebratory opening days, the museum showcased five performances from its collection, acquired over the past decade — among them, Tania Bruguera's iconic meditation on state power Tatlin's Whisper # 5 (2008), in which two police officers on horseback ride through the gallery (in the Tate's case, the vast Turbine Hall), performing pointless crowd - control exercises.

The artist Philippe Parreno admitted there was an awful lot going on as he unveiled his Hyundai commission for Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall.

In 2002 he filled Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall with his red sculpture Marsyas, and became a household name.

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.

Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall may seem custom - made for spectacular sculptures by Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst, but in recent years its installations have stressed participation and engagement.

Showcased in the gallery's vast Turbine Hall, the arcs and eddies of the Belgian choreographer's Work / Travail / Arbeid reveal the harmony of its composition

One of the most successful major public art projects in recent (ish) memory as Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, when in 2003 the Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall was bathed in sunlight and a sublime fine mist that felt entirely otherworldly.

Not exact matches

From vast outdoor public sculptures such as the Angel of the North and Mark Wallinger's soon to be realised White Horse to the many projects designed to enliven Tate Modern's vast, bare Turbine Hall, the scale of art just keeps getting bigger.

Whereas many works in the Turbine Hall have been on a vast scale, Sehgal's work is likely to be intimate performance art involving personal interaction between visitors and actors.

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.

Immediately impressive, the site - specific work occupies the vast 1640 square metre industrial space of the Turbine Hall and references the utopian visions of early 20th century modernity from a post-modern perspective.

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).

Eliasson's Weather Project in 2003 turned the Tate Modern Turbine Hall into a vast walk - in Turner world, where a blazing sun and heady, twilit space engulfed visitors in romantic illumination.

Mirosław Bałka, Poland's greatest artist, is most famous here for his devastating Turbine Hall installation at Tate Modern, that vast steel container which drew us into its seething black depths in our thousands to discover a terrible nothingness within, and then returned us to the light, and to life.

Tate Modern's signature series of site - specific installations in the vast former industrial space of the Turbine Hall continues with SUPERFLEX.

Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall's vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.

SUPERFLEX, Tate Turbin Hall Tate Modern's signature series of site - specific installations in the vast former industrial space of the Turbine Hall continues with the news that SUPERFLEX will be the next artists to undertake the Hyundai Commission to reinvent this major London venue.

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

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.

On the Turbine Hall floor is a vast carpet that visitors can lie on to experience sounds and visuals that change constantly.

This is the new work for the Turbine Hall — a vast stage set that has, over the past dozen years, been the scene of Bruce Nauman's soundscapes, Olafur Eliasson's swollen orange sun and Doris Salcedo's chthonic rupture through the concrete floor.

For his show at the Tate, Höller installed vast winding slides through the museum's Turbine Hall.

The problem with the turbine hall is its vast size, but also the awkwardness of the space, approached, as it is, by a long ramp and bisected by a dark bridge and stairs.

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.