You MUST take your children over Half Term and go to Tate Modern and see Tacita Dean's FILM, the latest commission in the Unilever Series. It is amazing! Stunning! Breathtaking!
Set at the end of a dramatically darkened Turbine Hall, FILM, a silent 11-minute 35mm film projected onto a 13 metres tall white monolith is a myriad of spectacular images looking like a giant stained-glass window or a moving wallpaper. It is in constant motion, moving from monochrome to hand tinted to vivid saturated high colour with the iconic image of the wall of the Turbine Hall showing through most of it.
And the children LOVED it!!! They could walk right up to it, be dwarfed by it, become part of it, engage with it... and that's what was so enigmatic and alluring for them. They could run up to it and behind it and and around it and try to catch the gigantic bubbles or egg or the flowing water...
The images; an escalator steps descending the screen, a Victorian fountain spouting water, the sea with waves rolling in, pigeons, roof girders, walkways and skylights, and moving imagery, and still imagery, and spot colour. The list is almost endless, but it is captivating and enduring. We sat and watched it over and over and over. And our daughter run up to it and danced in front of it and made new friends there...
And then we had coffee and cakes! A PERFECT day out!
Tacita Dean FILM. Turbine Hall, Tate Modern (020 7887 8888, tate.org.uk) until 11 March.
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