To celebrate the beginning of the works for Tate Modern’s new extension, Swedish artist Martin Karlsson has created a project on the 100-metre hoarding that encloses the building site. London – An Imagery 2008–9 takes as its starting point Gustave Doré’s gothic etchings published in 1872. In this film Karlsson tells us how his drawings update this portrait of the city and its inhabitants. The project can be seen on the hoardings behind Tate Modern until December 2010.
Hidden behind an unassuming door in a corner of Tate Britain, Mike Nelson’sCoral Reef installation invites visitors to explore a parallel world. It’s a claustrophobic construction of rooms and narrow corridors, each with a hint of life but decaying in front of your eyes. The sprawling work was first shown in 2001 at Matt’s Gallery in London, and is now part of Tate’s collection. In this interview the artist explains the ideas and ideologies behind the work, and tells us why he wants the spectator to feel ‘lost in a world of lost people’.
TateShots went to St Ives where Lily van der Stokker was putting the finishing touches to her exhibition ‘No Big Deal Thing’. The Dutch artist, based in Amsterdam and New York, produces elaborate and decorative wall drawings in a style she terms ‘nonshouting feminism’. We see the artist at work and talk to Martin Clark, creative director of Tate St Ives, about the exhibition.
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