REVIEW: TATE MODERN EXHIBITION

Pictures author's own 23/9-2013 - Tate Modern - Thomas Hirschhorn: Candelabra with Heads and Germaine Richier: Shepherd of the Landes

TATE MODERN 23/9-2013: Transformed visions - Room 1

Transformed vision is an exhibition where you will experience art from the 1950s, characterizing the physical, moral and humanitarian crises that took place after the Second World War. In the 1950s the artists experimented with making art that symbolized disaster, chaos or dilemma. They used either physical materials for art making or the body as a site for transformation. 

Thomas Hirschhorn and Germaine Richier have made their own suggestions for art in order to symbolize the humanitarian crisis. The first picture is a sculpture, which Thomas Hirschhorn have made and it is called Candelabra with Heads and was made in 2006. It is fairly very interesting to look at. It captures your attention, because of its different sizes of figures and their shapes. Interestingly, you will probably get into it, because it is very different from what you are used to see, and well the truth is that it is neither marvelous nor pretty, but the sculpture gets character because of its bleakness and the somber mood. It is basically look-a-like human beings figures, who are struggling and they are all covered by this brown sort of paper. It expresses that your surroundings constantly affect you. All the figures are just hanging there, as if they got killed, because of their physical crisis. It is a quite interesting way to show desperation and chaos. There are just so many different ways in making art. If we take a look at Germaine Richier's sculpture Shepherd of the Landes from 1951, we will experience a figure of a human being in pain as well. The sculpture represents a poor tiny figure with no eyes. It is not beautiful, it is almost like a tragedy. Because of the tiny body and the 3 legs, it is quite interesting to look at. It is very remarkable that the artist has chosen to leave the eyes hollow, but maybe it is just me who thinks that. I'm sure that there are plenty of ways to interpret this masterpiece! 

If you are into different art, and think it is quite interesting to see sculptures and paintings in which symbolize gloom, pessimism, desperation and sorrow, then I will definitely recommend you to visit this exhibition, it does certainly bear the mark of the above-mentioned categories. 

(http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/thomas-hirschhorn-and-germaine-richier)