At Tate Britain gallery in the morning until the evening of people running around
ARTinvestment.RU   08 июля 2008

According to the intent of the English artist Martin kontseptualista Krida, every 30 seconds for the gallery of sculptures to be run man

C 1 July dazed visitors to the London gallery Tate Britain, coming to the hall of neoclassical sculpture Duveen Galleries, a strange picture: a period of 30 seconds of placement at frenzied speed sweep people into the sport vestment. With this, some original performance? As the author of the idea, 40-year-old British artist Martin Krid, better it be called installations. After all, that prevents the viewer to imagine that people are running - this is actually ozhivshie sculpture? And when runners are on second pritormazhivayut against the wall, it is not the picture? According to the artist, he wanted to create a work of art (here: the installation of a moving painting and sculpture), which could enjoy a very short time. After all, the athletes, for fifteen seconds, volant on 86-meter hall, so quickly over the columns!

Yes, the installation - these athletes, which Krid hired for four months. Total «moving sculptures» agreed to 50 athletes. Each of them receives 10 pounds per hour. Visitors may not participate in the installation, because the staff Tate Britain fear for their safety and preservation of works of art on display in the hall. So that viewers can only impede the runner (as a newspaper correspondent tells the Guardian, the children who came to the museum, fun that block the way athletes rack), and reflect. According Krida, «Beg - complete opposite of stillness ... there is stillness and death. That is, race is a metaphor of life ». Installation can also be seen as ironic commentary on the upcoming Olympic Games.

At the moment, Martin Krid is one of the most famous British artists. In his work he uses the concepts of minimalism and conceptualism. The most famous work Krida - this is probably his neon installation, especially the famous «Everything's going to be alright». Neon letters, folding in the above phrase, at one time decorated the facades of several public buildings in Europe, including the portico of the old building orphanage in London. Krid also famous for its «balloons», where he clothe intangible category «air» in physical form. This installation - room with a lot of balloons, which contained exactly one half of the air required for the space. In 2001, Krid was the most important art prize in England, the Turner Prize for an installation with an empty room with flashing lights. Krid also created sculpture, video, graphic arts.

each of his works by the artist will be assigned a number. «Shifty people» have been numbered 850. Scamper to the Tate gallery product number 850 until November 16.

Julia Maksimova

Sources: telegraph.co.uk , guardian.co.uk , tate.org.uk , artinvestment.ru