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Article: EXHIBITIONS: Dead uncertainties
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 2, 1995
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WITH commendable ambition, the Tate Gallery has devised an
exhibition of contemporary art that aims to define issues of life
and death at the end of the 20th century. "Rites of Passage" is,
physically, a large show. It gives more than ample space to 11
artists, and among its interests is the fashion of this amplitude:
all the works are put on with great attention to their spatial
effects.
The installations are important, indeed crucial, because the
artists prefer panoramic or theatrical modes. The gallery floor is
used as a sort of lowered stage, and darkened rooms become
uncomfortable cinemas. These tactics are scarcely innovative, but
they appear to be essential to the exhibition's ...