TATE MODERN, Tour
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- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
When you enter Tate Modern you'll find yourself in its most suggestive space: Turbine Hall, a huge thirty-five meter tall hall with five floors that constantly host new installations of contemporary artists. To your right is the area called The Tanks, which are three large oil tanks that also host exhibitions. When visiting the gallery, don't merely admire the works, but also pay attention to the never-casually created contrasts between the industrial architecture and art exposed on a rotating basis.
The itinerary also often changes in the forty halls of the so-called "permanent collection".
Let me fill you in on an important premise: the immense artistic heritage of Tate Modern is not displayed in chronological order, but around four "thematic nuclei" that pass through all 20th-century art: the development of form, Abstract Art, Surrealism, and the value of the artist's gesture.
In addition to the ubiquitous figure of Picasso, who is a bit like the common thread weaving through the transformations of art in the 1900s, you'll also find masterpieces by masters such as Modigliani and Matisse, Klee and Kandinsky, Henri Moore and Miró, as well as a full review of pop art....