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The Tate Modern will be displaying a monumental new artwork by El Anatsui inside the Turbine Hall.
Behind the Red Moon is a sculptural installation made out of thousands of metal bottle tops and other fragments. By crumpling, crushing, and stitching them together into different compositions, Anatsui has managed to create massive abstract fields of colour.
The work was inspired by the artist's interest in the migration of goods and peoples during the transatlantic slave trade, and the bottle tops were sourced from the present-day industry built on the old colonial trade routes.
Up close, the bottle top logos show themselves to be commodities of this global industry, but by viewing the artwork from afar, visitors will discover a whole new landscape of symbols: a moon, a sail, a wave and the earth and a wall, embodying Anatsui's idea of the 'non-fixed form'.
The Times: ★★★★ "A Turbine Hall triumph"; The Telegraph: ★★★★ "As profound as it is poetic"; The Guardian: ★★★★★ "Miracles in gleaming gold"
