Eclecticana (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
I've just spent a few minutes inside the void of Miroslaw Balka's How It Is at Tate Modern . Physically massive and obviously a feat of engineering, the concept is deceptively simple - a big, black lined tank that you walk into. It's amazing how effectively the structure cuts out the light and even the few people ignoring the signs whose faces were illuminated by their mobile phone screens...
Archinect (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Tate Modern's 10th Turbine Hall commission, Miroslaw Balka's, How It Is . It's dark.
Henningham Family Press (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Recently I read about the latest commission for Tate’s Turbine Hall, an installation by Miroslaw Balka. Entitled ‘How It Is’, after a prose work by Samuel Beckett, the piece was described by one critic as “a darkness you struggle to measure, or rather a darkness that measures you.” Through the secondary sources of online photographs [...]
Blakepics.com Gallery (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
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The Shiny Headed Prophet (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I visited the Tate Modern today particularly to experience the latest installation in the Turbine hall, Miroslaw Balka's 'How it is.' It's worth a visit and while there I wrote some words: and i walked in to the darkness boldly going where half the Tate Modern had been before sinisterly drawing on my vulnerability summoned allured inhaled into its cavernous ebony abdomen sitting apart,...
diamind geezer (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... freight container, but then it's not the exterior that's important here. The box's creator is Miroslaw Balka , a Polish architectural artist, and he's the first commissionee to create something the Tate audience can actually walk inside. To find the way in, walk up to the far end of the Turbine Hall and stand at the foot of the ramp rising back into the box. Dark, isn't it? If the...
Inspiraculum (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
On our recent visit to London, Steve and I saw quite a bit of artwork. Sculpture at the Royal Academy, Turner and the Masters at the Tate Britain, the shortlisted nominees for this year’s Turner prize and an installation by Miroslaw Balka at the Tate Modern. The Anish Kapoor sculpture in the courtyard of the Royal [...]
Andreas Angelidakis (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I think maybe I had never been to the Barbican during daytime ever suddenly everything seemed interesting I was really there to see Radical Nature and everything natural seemed radical inside, great as always Rsie Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty Hans Haacke with photos from his series of real time systems all great at the Tate , great Baldessari Starry Night balanced on Triangular Trouble and Miroslaw...
