Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group (together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate Online). It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year. It is based in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of Central London. Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art.
TATE Modern is the United Kingdom’s national museum of modern art. TATE Modern opened in 2000 and fast became one of the most celebrated London attractions with art enthusiasts. There is no admission fee to the gallery, making it one of the most popular free attractions in London. The gallery is based at Bankside on the Thames’ southbank, just yards from the Shakespeare Globe Theatre.
The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. The building was converted by architects Herzog & de Meuron and contractors Carillion,after which it stood at 99m tall. The history of the site as well as information about the conversion was the basis for a 2008 documentary Architects Herzog and de Meuron: Alchemy of Building & Tate Modern.
The southern third of the building was retained by the French power companyEDF Energy as an electrical substation (in 2006, the company released half of this holding).TATE Modern houses a wonderful range of modern art, dating from the year 1900 up to today. The gallery’s main areas are the following: ‘Material Gestures’, devoted to abstract works of the 1940s and '50s; ‘Poetry and Dream’, a celebration of surrealistic works; ‘Scale’, which examines the practice of using scale to alter perception; ‘Energy and Process’, which looks at artists’ fascination with transformation and natural forces, and focuses on 1960s sculptural pieces; and ‘States of Flux’, which is devoted to early 20th-century art movements, such as pop art. TATE Modern's permanent exhibitions include works by such iconic 20th-century figures as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.
The southern third of the building was retained by the French power companyEDF Energy as an electrical substation (in 2006, the company released half of this holding).TATE Modern houses a wonderful range of modern art, dating from the year 1900 up to today. The gallery’s main areas are the following: ‘Material Gestures’, devoted to abstract works of the 1940s and '50s; ‘Poetry and Dream’, a celebration of surrealistic works; ‘Scale’, which examines the practice of using scale to alter perception; ‘Energy and Process’, which looks at artists’ fascination with transformation and natural forces, and focuses on 1960s sculptural pieces; and ‘States of Flux’, which is devoted to early 20th-century art movements, such as pop art. TATE Modern's permanent exhibitions include works by such iconic 20th-century figures as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.
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