Tate Modern has announced that the French artist Philippe Parreno will create the 2016 Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the second in the annual series that continues until 2025.
Parreno’s installation, which will open on 4 October 2016, follows Empty Lot, the current, inaugural commission by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas.
Working across film, video, sound, sculpture, performance and information technology, Parreno has collaborated with musicians, architects, scientists, writers and other visual artists for his work. With a keen interest in exploring and redefining the experience of visiting an art gallery, Parreno’s approach to exhibition making is to create environments rather than a series of works in a gallery.
One of Parreno’s best-known pieces is the feature-length film Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait (2006), co-directed with Douglas Gordon. In 2015, he presented a large-scale installation, H{N)Y P N(Y}OSIS, at Park Avenue Armory, New York (pictured above). His show at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2013 saw him take over the gallery’s entire space of 22,000 square metres.
Announcing the new commission, Tate Modern director Chris Dercon said: “Throughout his career Parreno has sought to transform how art can work, and his desire to create new immersive experiences makes him the perfect choice for the Turbine Hall. We look forward to seeing how he uses this iconic space when the commission is unveiled in October.”
