Cracking!
November 8, 2007OK.
I've been very disparaging about an exhibition at the Tate Modern in a previous post, but I can't help marvelling at this crack. A small crack in one concrete slab has been expanded upon by an artist to stretch the entire length of the Tate's Turbine hall. It's impressive work.
What's nice as well is that although there have been injuries resulting from the crack, the management at the Tate hasn't caved into the Health and Safety brigade and fenced it off.
However, the artist couldn't help herself from emitting some unnecessary arty-guff about how the gap symbolises racial division: representing "the gap between white Europeans and the rest of the world's population". Does this mean that there's a huge gap between white Europeans and Americans? And Japanese? And Australians? Does this mean that there's a huge gap between white Europeans and non-white Europeans?
My advice: Either spend more time on the drivel-text or just forget about it in the first place.
You had me with the crack on its own; although why it cost £300,000 is beyond me.
