The TATE and its Triennale

I don't know how these establishments manage to obtain such prime properties in the centre of london. As if the TATE Britain would be any different.

With this place the entrance is optional, you can choose to or not too go in of course but thats not what I'm on about. You have a choice on how, you can either choose to climb the steps and arise into the paradise of art entering into a semi-spherical ceilinged room that swallows you whole whilst at the same time belittling you into a reminder of your place and purpose in the gallery.

Or you can enter directly into the stomach of the machine, in on the basement level you are not given a sense of awe but more the sense of assimilation, the activity the interactions the people involved you are immediately one of.   

Anyway in terms of the Triennale the work was nicely secluded into the back area the entrance slightly obscured by robes i was given the impression of secrecy. Once inside it expands again, a new universe of modern art inside a museum of exceptional predecessors.  You can walk through time from the roots of classical painting into the cosmopolitan avant garde reality of the present art.

The Exhibition itself was good for its art but overstated on its intentions. Nicholas Bourriad's curation here is to suggest that we have moved past modernism and post modernism and now are in what he calls 'altermodern'. A state of art creation where production chosses all boundaries and continents, where modern artists are so because they use different places and genre of people across the world to create and influence their works. But this has been the way since way before this exhibition perhaps the creators of land art were the first to use alien spaces to create and exhibit work. Whichever and however its definitely not a new thing or one that will pass like NB is suggesting post modernism has

check the guardian website for more interesting writtings on altermodern