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Tuesday, 30 January, 2001, 13:28 GMT
'Cultural explosions' fill Tate Modern
![]() Tokyo features Encounter by Yamashita Kikuji [1971]
London's Tate Modern is featuring key moments of "cultural creativity" from nine cities across the world at its first major temporary exhibition.
The international show, which spans the globe from Paris to Bombay, aims to illustrate defining moments of modern art and culture. The gallery said Century City shows how the creative flashpoints produced a "cultural explosion in which art, architecture, cinema, dance, fashion, music and theatre flourished". It opens in the Paris of 1910 with Picasso's Cubism, and ends in 2001 with London's artists using city life as both inspiration and raw material.
She said it showed there was no single "origin of creativity", and that there were "multiple modernisms sparking all over the globe". British artist Tracey Emin, one of the stars featured in the London section, said her work has been the "complete antithesis" to the "knock-on effect from the 80s - big and glossy and Perspex and looking like it was full of money". She told the BBC: "We knew we were doing something quite radical at the time, but for us it was a lot of pleasure and hard work." As well as featuring the French and UK capitals, the show's other seven cities are:
Tate Modern's spokesperson added the bars frequented by artists in urban areas were "the conditions the metropolis has provided for artistic and intellectual invention across the 20th and 21st Centuries". The exhibition is running from 1 February until 29 April 2001.
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