Title: Cildo Meireles
Location: LONDON - Tate Modern
Description: Cildo Meireles is an artist who makes mysterious and atmospheric installations which invite participation.
Start Date: 2008-10-14
End Date: 2009-02-11

This exciting exhibition includes a number of large-scale works that engage you with their striking presence and then draw you in with their complexity. A new version of Fontes 1992/2008 includes 6,000 carpenter’s rulers hanging from the ceiling, a thousand clocks and thousands of vinyl numbers. Babel 2001 is a vast and imposing structure of radios - Meireles’s contemporary take on the biblical tower, while Volatile 1994 is an environment that plays with our response to danger. These pieces intrigue, amaze and challenge the viewer and contribute to a rich and fascinating experience in this, Meireles’s first major retrospective in the UK.

Meireles is a Brazilian artist and has been creating sculptures and installations that involve participation since the 1960s, with works ranging from a tiny single object that can fit on a fingertip to vast installations filling large spaces in the gallery. His works include both a sensory and a cerebral side, such as his celebrated Insertions into Ideological Circuits 1970, which he used to spread messages of protest under a military dictatorship. Meireles is a leading figure in the history of conceptual art and this exhibition provides a powerful tour of his most memorable works.

Exhibition Hours
Sunday to Thursday, 10.00–18.00. Friday and Saturday, 10.00–22.00. Last admission into exhibitions 17.15 (Friday and Saturday 21.15).

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