20 July 08
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Massive show to celebrate the Hayward's 4oth Birthday...
10 artist-designed architectural environments take over the inside and outside of this stunning gallery! These rocked - Rachel Whiteread's Village made from more than 200 doll's houses, each illuminated by a single light bulb. Mike Nelson's two rooms, with plastered walls that look as if a wild animal has been let loose. Havana-based collective Los Carpinteros' room full of suspended furniture as if frozen in a moment of explosive disaster. Do-Ho Suh's sculpture Fallen Star, featuring a scale model of the artist's childhood home, in Korea, hurtling into the New England apartment where he later lived. Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto's two-domed sensory environments made of Lycra. And even a boating pond by the Vienna-based collective Gelitin. (long Q to experience this installation)
This gallery is superb. It's brutal concrete construction is a joy to behold. Show ends 25 August 08.
Smashing!
7 out of 10
