{"id":18934,"date":"2019-05-14T12:37:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=18934"},"modified":"2019-05-14T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:37:44","slug":"in-photos-the-asset-strippers-installation-by-mike-nelson-at-tate-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/in-photos-the-asset-strippers-installation-by-mike-nelson-at-tate-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"In photos: The Asset Strippers installation by Mike Nelson at Tate Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Contemporary British installation artist Mike Nelson<\/a> has transformed the grand spaces of the Duveen Galleries at the Tate Britain into ‘something between a sculpture court and an asset strippers\u2019 warehouse.’<\/p>\n

Carefully selecting objects from the post-war Britain that framed his childhood, visitors can walk between enormous knitting machines, upended telegraph poles, graffitied steel awnings and doors from an NHS hospital.<\/p>\n

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Nelson, who has twice been nominated for the\u00a0Turner Prize, said arranging the items in the gallery \u201csubtly shifts them from what they once were into sculpture, and then back again to what they are \u2014 examples of the machines and equipment left over from industry and infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe exhibition weaves this allusion with that of British history. It presents us with a vision of artefacts cannibalised from the last days of the industrial era in place of the treasures of empire that would normally adorn such halls.\u201d [—<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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The Guardian<\/a> gave the exhibition a 5 star review, concluding:<\/p>\n

There are the dead machines, so powerfully revived, so beautifully fashioned in their own right: sculptural in their torsions, curves and volumes.<\/p>\n

There are the traces of those who worked them \u2013 the fingerprints and the scribbled numbers, the patina on crankshaft and handle, burnished with the workers\u2019 daily touch.<\/p>\n

Grinders, pumps, mills, drills and spindles, these creations were made to create what we ate and used and wore for so long, and perhaps even to mix the paints in the art around us at\u00a0Tate Britain.<\/p>\n

Every element is a sculpture in its own right, down to the smallest bulldog of a mechanism; together they form a unique monument to British history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s a selection of photos from my recent visit. The exhibition continues until 6th October 2019.<\/p>\n

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Tate Britain info<\/h2>\n

The Asset Strippers runs until 6th October 2019
\nDuveen Galleries<\/a>
\nMillbank, London SW1P 4RG
\nPlan your visit<\/a><\/p>\n

Opening hours:<\/strong>
\nSunday 10am\u20136pm
\nMonday 10am\u20136pm
\nTuesday 10am\u20136pm
\nWednesday 10am\u20136pm
\nThursday 10am\u20136pm
\nFriday 10am\u20136pm
\nSaturday 10am\u20136pm<\/p>\n

Admission:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n

www.tate.org.uk\/visit\/tate-britain<\/a><\/p>\n

Chat about the Tate Britain on the forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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