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11/5/2000

Louise Bourgeois

Tate Modern, London

Tate Modern is Britain's new national museum of modern art, and will open to the public for the first time on 12 May.
Housed in the former Bankside Power Station, Tate Modern will display the Tate Collection of international modern art from 1900 to the present day, including major works by Bacon, Dalí, Picasso, Matisse, Rothko and Warhol as well as contemporary work by artists such as Rebecca Horn, Steve McQueen and Gillian Wearing. Further information about the Collection Displays will go on-line in May.

Bankside Power Station has been transformed into Tate Modern by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. The former Turbine Hall, running the whole length of the vast building, now marks a breathtaking entrance to the gallery. From here visitors will be swept up by escalator through two floors featuring a café, shop and auditorium to three levels of galleries. At the top of the building is a new two storey glass structure which not only provides natural light into the galleries on the top floors, but will also house a stunning café offering outstanding views across London.

There will also be a full range of special exhibitions and a broad public programme of events throughout the year.

The Unilever Series: Louise Bourgeois
12 May - December 2000

Each year for the next five years, Tate Modern will commission a large-scale work for the Gallery's 500ft long x 100ft high Turbine Hall.
The inaugural work is by the French-born American sculptor Louise Bourgeois who is regarded as one of the most important artists working today. This project is Bourgeois' most ambitious to date and will be on display when the gallery opens to the public on 12 May.
Three large steel towers, about 30 feet high, will dominate the east end of the Turbine Hall. Each tower supports a platform on which two chairs are surrounded by a series of large swivel mirrors. The mirrors with their reflective surfaces will create an intense space for contemplation and reflection.
Visitors are able to mount spiral staircases on the towers to experience the space of the platform and the Turbine Hall. Bourgeois imagines that the platforms will become the stage for significant conversations and human confrontations. Adjacent to the towers and straddling the bridge of the Turbine Hall is an enormous 35 feet high spider by Bourgeois, the largest she has made.
Born in 1911 in Paris, she studied under Léger, before moving to New York in 1938. A contemporary and colleague of the Surrealists and Abstract Expressionists Louise Bourgeois' own work has always been at the forefront of new developments in art. Obsessed by memories of her own childhood in France her work has always been deeply autobiographical, and in many different media (painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, performance) she has explored themes of identity, sex, love, alienation and death.

The Unilever Series: an annual art commission sponsored by Unilever

Tate Modern
Bankside London SE1 9TG
Information: 020 7887 8008 (international +44 20 7887 8008) Minicom: 020 7887 8687
Gallery Hours: Tate Modern opens to the public on 12 May
Sunday to Thursday, 10.00-18.00; Friday to Saturday, 10.00-22.00 (galleries open at 10.15am)

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