Art Installation at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

[Merlion]

"The Unilever series of commissions at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall". (Tate Modern is the premier modern art museum in London).

Oct 10, 2005: Rachel Whitehead's Embankment, the latest art installation to occupy Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, was unveiled today, see below.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/whiteread/default.shtm

Since the gallery opened in 2000, six artists have risen to the challenge of filling the 155 m x 35 m (500 ft x 115 ft) space. This link below gives more information about each artwork.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/0,8542,1588934,00.html

[JAZ]

Rachel Whiteread's installation, though massive, yet formed of almost translucent representations of the interiors of boxes doesn't have the visual poetry of some of her other works. These are just so square. When she filled a house with concrete, there were surrprises - the reversals of the window spaces, and so on. The explorations into the organically shaped negative spaces within other objects has more visual richness. Though she is still dealing with the negative shapes in this Tate work, and their stated connection with what boxes enclose, The shapes themselves are too predictable and regular.
I love Olafur Eliasson's work. I've never been to London, but did see his show at the ICA in Boston, his lave rock barge in Boston Harbor and his show at Hafnarhus in Iceland. His visual metaphors are excellent.
Thanks Merlion.
JAZ