Art
Global Cities exhibition exclusive
June 2007: in review
Mumbai adds 42 people to its population every hour, which means an overall increase of nearly half a million inhabitants a year. In less than a hundred years, the percentage of the urban dwelling global population has risen from 10% to over 50% and will reach 75% by 2050. So what does it mean in this day and age to live in a city and what are the social, environmental and architectural consequences of these staggering statistics? These are the questions at the heart of the Tate Modern’s exhaustive exhibition ‘Global Cities’, which opens on 20th June.
Changes in the world economy have resulted in a series of cities that are outgrowing each other exponentially at a rate of knots, with polar opposite social consequences depending on which side of the breadline their inhabitants fall. The exhibition focuses on London, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Mumbai, Sao Paolo, Shanghai and Tokyo, exploring the themes of form, speed, size, density and diversity in each, in an attempt to gain a God's eye perspective on the common DNA behind each city.
The exhibition will fill the Turbine Hall until August 27th and charts, through photos, art and architectural drawings, this modern phenomena. We’ve been granted an exclusive preview of the exhibition, from which we’ve picked our favourite photos of each city.
Click on the image below to see our very own Global Cities gallery.
INFORMATION
- Website
- http://www.tate.org.uk/modern
- Telephone
- 44.20 7887 8888
- Address
- Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG
