October 9, 2006

Carsten Höller Slips Fun Into Art

by Piers Fawkes

Carsten Holler

The Tate Modern in London has a new exhibition on its giant slope: a series of metal tubes for people to slide down. The Tate site says:

For Carsten Höller, the experience of sliding is best summed up in a phrase by the French writer Roger Caillois as a ‘voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind’. The slides are impressive sculptures in their own right, and you don’t have to hurtle down them to appreciate this artwork. What interests Höller, however, is both the visual spectacle of watching people sliding and the ‘inner spectacle’ experienced by the sliders themselves, the state of simultaneous delight and anxiety that you enter as you descend.

Until 9th April 07.

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