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Art, Tate Modern

The former Bankside Power Station, now the inspiring Tate Modern, the national museum of contemporary art since its opening in 2000.

Originally built in 1947 to the designs of Giles Gilbert Scott, the power station was closed in 1981 and was redundant for many years (I can recall how grim and forlorn it looked walking past it on a dull afternoon in the mid 1980s while its future hung in the balance). Its transformation began in 1995 to the designs of Herzog & de Meuron and its reinvention as a home for contemporary art set within an astonishing industrial architectural space has been hailed as a success ever since and the gallery remains enduringly popular.

The exhibition spaces themselves are mainly fairly neutral white rooms but this allows the art to be seen to full effect while the gigantic main hall (the former turbine hall) is home to temporary installations. The collection of artworks is regularly rotated and displayed along thematic lines in various sections of the gallery. New installations and temporary exhibitions mean that you can always see something new each time you visit.

The scale and raw power of this building is such that one feels the collection is only occupying a fairly small percentage of it, much of it being the sheer open space of the main hall, a place in which one feels very small.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate_Modern

Taken in: UK / England / The City / Queenhithe (show map)

Taken on: January 25, 2024

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