10/20/2023 0 Comments Tate modern tate modern oil tank walls![]() ![]() “The Tate extension is quite unlike most other civil engineering projects we’ve worked on" said Nick Burchett, Regional Sales Engineer at ACO Technologies. Its unique geometric design posed a number of water management challenges. This was certainly the case with her monumental installation A Subtlety, commissioned by Creative Time and exhibited in the defunct Domino Sugar Refining Plant in Brooklyn in 2014, which saw her 10-metre-high sphinx made from sugar challenge issues around slavery and the sugar and molasses trade.The 10-storey extension to the Tate Modern on London’s South Bank opened its doors to critical acclaim in 2016. Walker has discussed scale in the past, saying that the size of her work often embodies the enormous weight of the contradictions at play. ‘Using flashe paint, tempera and watercolour, she creates a striking fresco-like composition framed against a cobalt-blue night sky.’Īt more than three metres across - a similar size to a mural - the work is impressively confrontational. ‘She adds electrifying colour to the mix, too,’ says Cristian Albu, Senior Specialist in Post-War and Contemporary Art. The painting has a supernatural, dream-like quality to it, and depicts three figures in an ecstatic ménage à trois while being aggressively brutalised by a policeman in riot gear. Executed in 2015, it forms part of a series of large-scale works that satirise the West’s perceived ‘idioms’ of African America art - idioms that include folk art, primitivism and graffiti idioms that Walker sees as patronising and two-dimensional. ![]() The vivid painting Four Idioms on Negro Art #4: Primitivism, which set a new world auction record for the artist when it sold in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 25 June, is just such a picture. ![]()
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