The Tate Modern art museum is housed in a repurposed power station. It's a brutalist background, cold and industrial, but at least it doesn't compete with the art for your attention.
Visitors descend into the museum via a broad ramp, then enter the spacious steel and cement Turbine Hall. Currently the hall is filled with El Anatsui's Behind the Red Moon. This large piece greets the Tate's visitors with an expanse of red, and later it bids adieu with a side of yellow. It brings to mind a giant duvet cover that has been hung out to dry.
Staged as an artwork in three acts, El Anatsui's cascading metal hangings transform the Turbine Hall. Thousands of repurposed liquor bottle tops and metal fragments were crumpled, crushed, and connected by hand with copper wire into unique compositions. Later, large sheets were pieced together to form massive abstract fields of colour, shape, and line. Despite being monumental in scale, the works are flexible and adaptable to change. Descending from the Turbine Halls ceiling, Anatsui's symphonic sculptures hang in the air and seem to float across the space.
- From the Tate exhibit guide
Staged as an artwork in three acts, El Anatsui's cascading metal hangings transform the Turbine Hall. Thousands of repurposed liquor bottle tops and metal fragments were crumpled, crushed, and connected by hand with copper wire into unique compositions. Later, large sheets were pieced together to form massive abstract fields of colour, shape, and line. Despite being monumental in scale, the works are flexible and adaptable to change. Descending from the Turbine Halls ceiling, Anatsui's symphonic sculptures hang in the air and seem to float across the space.
- From the Tate exhibit guide
Staged as an artwork in three acts, El Anatsui's cascading metal hangings transform the Turbine Hall. Thousands of repurposed liquor bottle tops and metal fragments were crumpled, crushed, and connected by hand with copper wire into unique compositions. Later, large sheets were pieced together to form massive abstract fields of colour, shape, and line. Despite being monumental in scale, the works are flexible and adaptable to change. Descending from the Turbine Halls ceiling, Anatsui's symphonic sculptures hang in the air and seem to float across the space.
- From the Tate exhibit guide
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