Travel & Humanitarian Photos
Not according to my friend Masher it’s not. And if Modern Art leaves you bewildered then the latest installation at Tate Modern is probably unlikely to bring you any further into the folds of the Modern Art community.
After giant spiders, slides, white cubes and a massive solar installation, the Tate is, like The Jam, going underground. The latest piece to grace the massive Turbine Hall is a chasm that stretches the length of the building.
Now I can see how that might be an interesting concept and I can understand how it might invert our usual views of such a robust and impressive structure as the Tate but artist Doris Salcedo claims to be “addressing a long legacy of racism and colonialism that underlies the modern world”. I haven’t seen the crack in person but I must admit that it didn’t immediately bring the subject of racism to mind.
Either way, you can’t deny that it’s an unusual subject for an artwork and continues the Tate’s record of displaying ground-breaking art. “Ground-breaking” – geddit?