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One of Tate Modern's favorite installers returns this year with a fun new project designed to make us think, etc., even though it only seems to work on one level. Olafur Elibadon has a ton of white Lego bricks delivered to the gallery, to play with. It is not quite artistic to see the natural world die in real time.
The ton of Elibadon bricks will be installed / unloaded in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern this summer, which will be the best thing to do there since the establishment of the huge slides. The artistic thought behind the Lego dump is to invite people to build the city of their dreams of the future, with successive visitor builders who add or remove – and steal pieces of – the structure, so that it evolves from collaborative way.
Even if some drunken young people vandalize all this and shit on the tables at the close of the closing, everything will be fine too, because it can then be a metaphor for urban life or regeneration or decadence, or why it is useless to try to create something beautiful we are all condemned by the lowest common denominators of society. Or something. I do not know. I did business studies, not art.
Elibadon will propose more, because the Lego exhibition is part of a larger retrospective of his older works – and he has already done the same thing as Lego. It will be available on July 11th. [TATE via Guardian]
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