« gift »Tate Modern from the group« Liberate Tate ». Source: liberatetate.wordpress.com

activist group Liberate Tate («Free Tate") is known for its numerous protest against sponsorship gallery by British Petroleum. What did not do the band: hosed threshold Museum molasses-like oil and sprinkled with feathers (it was at the time of the accident in the Gulf of Mexico), had in the Tate block of ice (to symbolize the melting of the development of oil eternal ice), tied to a helium balls of dead fish, and so on.

this time out of a Welsh town was carefully taken from the old blade wind turbine, and then one hundred representatives of Liberate Tate brought her Turbine Hall Tate. His performance and the art object they called The Gift («Gift"). This gift longer than 16 meters and a weight of one and a half tons, resting on the floor of the Turbine Hall, on the idea of ​​activists symbolizes the bones of a giant sea monster, beached (the metaphor of deep oil wells BP, because of which the melting Arctic ice cap). But this is not a dead animal, it's part of some magic machine conversion, grateful giant, is the future that wants to become real. Put simply, it is a symbol of renewable energy. This blade, nicely sharpened winds to cut unhealthy umbilical cord that connects art with oil.

Tate director Nicholas Serota has not given a definitive answer to the question of whether there will be "Present" in the gallery's collection . According to the laws of Britain, any item that they want to give the nation must act in public museums. And Liberate Tate just positioning the blade windmill as gift to the British people. Serota said that the issue of "gifts" will be resolved at the next board of trustees of the museum, which will be held in September. And while the blade remains in the Tate.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources : guardian.co.uk , liberatetate.wordpress.com , artinvestment.ru