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The tanks at tate modern12/7/2023 In the metal tank exhibition space, visitors listen to an audio piece. If there's water dripping on your head or the floor, just try not to slip. There are no million dollar paintings here and not expensive finishes. I don't mean to romanticize the renovation, but these bins somewhat made evident the roughness of the space and its use. There was no caution tape, nor guard nearby. There were about a dozen of these bins interspersed throughout the open entrance gallery of the Tanks. It had been raining in London for a week at that point, on and off, with some snow. sweating slab syndrome) or something was leaking I couldn't tell. I would be remiss - or obviously biased in my affection for the work of Herzog & de Meuron - if I didn't mention the bins collecting water. On a wall asking for comments from visitors, many post-it notes included the word "spooky." One could read this as a mood shifter from the clean white galleries above or as an art historically savvy homage to the late 20th century history of performance art. Without bright lights washing out the tones, a visitor to the Tanks enters spaces with ladders to nowhere, patched up openings, dark discolorations and even writing on the concrete. On a visit to the Tanks last week I was impressed that the space was even more rough than implied in the opening photos. As Herzog & de Meuron explain one aspect of this connection to the expansion " A row of new and inclined concrete columns penetrate the space and introduce a moment of structural force of what will be built above over the next years."Ĭoncrete columns do exactly that without taming the scale of the open spaces or their rawness. They are spaces dedicated to performance that also launch the next phase of the Herzog & de Meuron expansion. The Tanks at Tate Modern opened this past summer.
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