GREAT MUSEUMS:Tate Modern Ι

Tate Modern: It is one of the most impressive Museums, originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. In 1992 the Tate Gallery at the British National Art Museum proposed a competition to build a new building for modern art. The purpose for the new building would help with the ever-expanding collection on modern and contemporary art. In 1995 it was announced that Herzog & de Meuron had won the competition with their simple design.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Tate Modern Archive

You must visit the permanent Collection of Tate Modern, every time you will find yourself in London, since that everything you will see is a different experience. Tate Modern is Britain’s national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group. We make a selection of the many important artists and works contained in the collection. In the first part we focus on artists that their work has relatives and internal influences like: Marc Rothko, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Serra, Piet Modrian, Pierro Manzoni, Jannis Kounellis, Rebecca Horn, Mario Merz, Richard Wright, Richard Halmiton and Damien Hisrt.