Gallery News The Tanks open at Tate Modern
London, UK’s Tate Modern has announced the launch of one of the world’s first per- manent exhibition spaces for live art, installation and per- formance works in the former power station’s oil tanks. A commission from Korean
artist Sung Hwan Kim is the first to be installed in The Tanks – opened as part of the London 2012 Festival. Te Tanks had been vacant
since the Bankside Power Station was decommissioned in 1981 but is hosting Art in Action – a 15-week festival of live art, installation and film works. Te creation of new galleries is also the first
Te Tanks provide one of the world’s first exhibition spaces for live art
stage of the £215m (US$337m, €275m) Tate Modern Project, with the UK government contributing £50m (US$78.4m, €64m) and the Greater London Authority investing £7m (US$11m, €9m). Other donations have been
secured in support of the scheme, which will see exhibition space increase by 60 per cent. Herzog and de Meuron are behind the
design of the redevelopment of Tate Modern, which also includes a new building adjoining the existing site to the south. Details:
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Louvre to unveil new Islamic Art Galleries
More than 2,500 objects con- tained within the Louvre’s collection of Islamic art will go on display across nearly 3,000sq m (32,292sq ft) of new gallery space at the Paris attraction on 22 September. Te opening of new Islamic
Art Galleries – designed by architects Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti – is the first major addition since I M Pei’s glass pyramid in 1989. Spanning two levels within
a glass pavilion, the galleries are covered by a gold irides- cent steel roof and open up the courtyard of the Cour Visconti for the first time. Renaud Piérard’s interior design concept will allow visitors to place the works on dis- play – historically, geographically and within the original context of the pieces.
Te gold iridescent steel roof covers the Louvre’s Islamic Art Galleries The objects on show come from 15,000
works within the Louvre’s collection, as well as the 3,400 items on permanent loan from the Collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Read more:
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Kunsthalle Zürich opens following major renovation
Kunsthalle Zürich, one of Switzerland’s leading art attractions, has opened following a transfor- mation of its home at the Löwenbräukunst. A team formed of Swiss architectural prac-
tices Gigon / Guyer and Atelier ww was chosen to lead the redesign of the Löwenbräu
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complex. Work started in late 2010, with Kunsthalle Zürich having been housed at the Löwenbräukunst on a temporary basis for 14 years. Te redevelopment has now provided the institution with a new permanent home. Read more:
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image (c) 2012 musée du louvre, dist. rmn/antoine mongodin
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