Tate Modern

Tate Modern

Tate Modern
Director	Frances Morris
Established	2000; 17 years ago
Location	Bankside, London SE1 9TG, UK

Overview

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Background

Tate Modern is included as part of the Tate group which also includes Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, and Tate Online. The Gallery includes both British and International modern and contemporary art. It is one of the largest contemporary art museums in the world and was established in the year 2000. In the first year that Tate Modern was opened it received over 5.25 million visitors and continues to attract visitors today.

Temporary Exhibitions

The Radical Eye

"THE RADICAL EYE: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection" is one of the greatest collections of photography drawn from the classic modernist period of the 1920s to the 1950s. For the past twenty-five years, Sir Elton John has brought together this collection that includes portraits of Matisse, Picasso, and Breton, among other great artists. "With over 70 artists and nearly 150 rare vintage prints on show from seminal figures including Brassai, Imogen Cunningham, André Kertész, Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, and Aleksandr Rodchenko, this is a chance to take a peek inside Elton John’s home and delight in seeing such masterpieces of photography." .

This exhibition will be available;e until May 21st 2017 and what makes the visit to it most existing is that you are able to look at the photographs while listening to Sir Elton John narrating their meanings and who he deceased to add them to his personal collection, which is usually kept in his house in Atlanta. From his own voice you can also listen about the works that inspire him, and get insights into the techniques and innovations of the period from curator Shoair Mavlian.

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Permanent Exhibitions

Artist and Society

The Artist and Society collection aims to show the relationships between artists and social ideas and problems. The art features ranges from scenes of Civil War to protest to "utopia". This gallery is all about the way that artists express social realities through their art forms, whether that is through painting or sculpture or even photography and video. Some of the artists featured in the exhibit are Salvador Dalí and Richard Hamilton. To read more about the gallery click here.

Living in the City

On the fourth floor of the gallery, there's an exhibit tucked away in the back corner called Living in the City. This exhibit goes through a few different living conditions in cities during the 1970s. This also explores what Soviet Russia was like during the days where power throughout the union was slowly declining. To learn more about gallery, click here.

Media Networks

This exhibit portrayed the excitement and anxiety generated by the modern city. Artists captured the speed of modern transportation, the rate of industrialization, and the transformative power of technology. The focus of their works mostly consisted of social setting and situations. The developments of new techniques and styles allowed artists to better portray their meaning to make their piece more impactful for the viewer. To learn more about this exhibit click here

Part of Monument 1980-1

Monument 1980-1

Monument 1980-1 gives viewers the chance to privately listen and remember in the setting of a public memorial. This installation consists of 41 photos taken by Susan Hiller of Victoria memorial plaques that were found in a London park. These plaques commemorate an ordinary person who died while performing an act of heroism. In front of the plaques sits a bench with a cassette player where a single person can listen to a commentary done by Hiller on death, memory and representation read my Hiller. The artist also uses this piece of work to memorialize herself as the voice in the artwork. Only one person at a time can listen to the recording forming a one-on-one connection with the artist. Also as the listener sits in the bench with there back to the photographs, the listener is facing the audience and is seen as a part of the artwork for a moment.

Ambiguous Structure No.92

This piece was created by Jean-Pierre Yvaral in 1969. It was created using acrylic paint on a chipboard. Previously Yvaral used on black and white but began experimenting with color in the '60s. This painting uses highly contrasting color and geometrical shapes to produce three-dimensional effects.

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