Watch This Space: Hyundai Commission 2015

Hyundai Commission 2015: Abraham Cruzvillegas - Empty Lot

Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art in recent years, enjoyed by an audience of millions each year. This is the first in a new series of annual site-specific commissions by renowned international artists, commissioned to change audience’s experience of the space and the museum.
The inaugural installation is by Abraham Cruzvillegas, a Mexican artist best known for creating sculptural works from local found objects and materials. During the 1990s and 2000s, Cruzvillegas was among the key figures of a new wave of emerging conceptual artists in Mexico.

For the past few years, Cruzvillegas has created a body of work under the title ‘autoconstrucción’ or ‘self-construction’. The term refers to the way in which Mexicans of his parents’ generation, arriving in the capital from rural areas in the 1960s, built their own houses in stages, improvising with whatever materials they could source.
Curzvillegas is unveiling his new artwork created especially for the Turbine Hall on 13 October. Watch this space.
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