Friday, 4 February 2011

Creative and media activity in the south bank

Tate Modern 


Tate Modern is a national gallery of modern art from all over the world, Located in London. Made from a old power station in 2000 in the heart of London. Tate has special exhibitions, events and education, Collection displays, and collections.

The exhibitions on at the Tate modern are:

Level2 Gallery: Alejandro Cesar co. Present Memory
This exhibition will take place at the Tate Modern from the 10th of July to 31 October 2010. The exhibitions entry is free.

This exhibition is about a Uruguayan artist Alejandro Cesar co who was born on 1975 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He lives and works in New York City.
Present Memory, a newly commissioned video, and features an intimate portrait of the artist’s farther, a doctor recently diagnosed with cancer. Using a 16mm camera, Ceresco filmed his father in his medical practise. This creates a visual echo and activates a sense of déjà vu every time the viewer re-counter it




















Gauguin
This exhibition will take place at the Tate Modern from the 30th of September to 16 January 2010. The exhibitions entry is £13.50 and concessions.

This exhibition is about Gauguin one of the worlds most famous and best loved artists from the early 20th century. For the first time in the UK in over 50 years the Tate modern present this exhibition. This exhibition explores the role of the myths around the man-Gauguin as storyteller.






Unit 1.1

The SouthBank


South Bank is a beautiful riverside at the heart of central London in the borough of Lambeth, following the themes from Lambeth to Blackfriars bridges. South bank is full of art, theatre, exhibitions; music, film and free event meaning that south bank can be enjoyed by people of all ages.Southbank Centre consists of the Royal Festival Hall (reopened after its two-year transformation), the Hayward GalleryQueen Elizabeth Hall(containing the Purcell Room), and the Saison Poetry Library. We also manage the Arts Council Collection and organises the National Touring Exhibition programme in venues throughout the UK.
Situated on the south bank of the River Thames next to the popular Merlin Entertainments London Eye, Southbank Centre is at the heart of an arts quarter stretching from the Royal National Theatre and National Film Theatre to Tate Modern and Shakespeare's Globe.
 This map shows all the different events in south bank.














http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/