Sponsored by Benson & Sedgwick Engineering and also by AB Fine Art Foundry
Raised Awareness was an exhibition of artists’ drawings curated by Bill Woodrow with hands-on interpretation for blind and partially sighted visitors. Works by Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Richard Long, Alison Wilding, Bill Woodrow and other contemporary artists were included. Commentary was available in Braille, large-print, audio cassette and CD.
The exhibition was curated by Bill Woodrow.
In the first of a new series of annual commissions, Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi used the walls of the Members Room on Level 6 as a blank canvas for his spontaneous, cartoon-like drawings. His drawings always respond to the social and political context in which they are made and incorporate comments on personal, regional and international issues, and in this setting of the Members Room they provided a witty, provocative and occasionally cutting commentary on topical subjects, particularly those connected with Tate Modern. Perjovschi’s work follows the tradition of political cartoonists’ drawings, linking humorous observations of everyday life with ironic comments. The artist’s research for The Room Drawing included interviewing Tate staff, Tate Members and representatives from Tate Modern’s Council.
The exhibition was curated by Maeve Polkinhorn.
Following commissions in the Tate Modern Restaurant by Hamish Fulton and then Fiona Rae, Beatriz Milhazes created a striking new work entitled Guanabara Bay, referring to one of Rio de Janeiro’s most celebrated views. The saturated colours and vivid patterns of her mural, comprised of coloured vinyl applied directly to the walls, evoke the vibrancy of Milhazes’s native Brazil, with the vivid yellow echoing the intensity of bright sunlight. Combining geometric and organic motifs, the composition creates a visual dialogue with the spectacular views of London from the restaurant and the natural light that floods in through the full-length windows. This work was supported by Dasha and William Shenkham in memory of their mother, Belle Shenkham, a passionate patron and promoter of the arts.
The project was curated by Helen Sainsbury.
Supported by EDF Energy
Danish artists Elsebeth Jørgensen and Pia Rönicke were commissioned to produce a project for the hoardings on the southern perimeter of Tate Modern's site, currently undergoing building works. Their project, Unofficial Deposited Records 2005, transformed the hoardings into a gigantic bulletin board, with the artists creating a montage from materials such as old photographs, maps and newspaper clippings selected during research at the Southwark Local History Library archives. They also included material provided by Tate Modern’s Community Film Club who were invited to contribute to this visual narrative about the area. Jørgensen and Rönicke are interested in archives as fictional constructs, where facts and narrative structures interweave with the official and unofficial. Their fascinating montage highlighted the tenuous line between fact and fiction in our reading of history.
The project was curated by Maeve Polkinhorn.
