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Five artists explain the “Common Wealth”
Those who have always found contemporary art less than immediate, incomprehensible and, above all, not much fun should not miss the recently inaugurated exhibition at the Tate Modern. The protagonists are five contemporary artists from Europe and Latin America - Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Höller, and Gabriel Orozco – who via fifteen or so large installations, mostly interactive, explain the implications and political meanings that lie behind the words: “Common” and “Wealth”.
There is Hotel Democracy by Thomas Hirschhorn from Switzerland - an installation that allows people to walk all the way around a model of a two-storey high building, looking into the various rooms in which images of battles fought in the name of democracy are projected. Then, there is “Frisbee House” by Carsten Höller - a tent filled with about thirty Frisbees, which visitors can throw at one another, or through the holes in the fabric. Five table-tennis tables surrounding a water lily (“Ping Pond Table”, 1998) and a round billiard table with two white balls and a third red one attached to a pendulum (“Oval with Pendulum”, 1996) are the works proposed by the Mexican Gabriel Orozco. Last comes the artistic duo of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla who examine the “space of encounter between people… whether it’s psychological territory or a physical terrain”.
until 28.12.2003 Common Wealth Tate Modern Bankside, London SE1 9TG T +44-2078878000 http://www.tate.org.uk
