The guided tour trough Tate Modern by a complete layman

One of the really great things in London is that you can find free museums and galleries.  I decided to spent second day of my trip in Tate Modern and save more money for shopping and burgers. I tried to figure out why this bulding with so many likes, positive reviews on Facebook and big names as Picasso is free of charge. 

Than I entered the first room on second floor and realized that it is probably because it in phase of restoration, and they want to open the door for everyone to see story behind art pieces. 

I was impressed by British preciseness. Look all these rubbish put in one cube. Paper, plastic, wood...they for sure need much time but it was a good way to save the space.

Arranged rubish

Some bricks, again put on very straight manner, were on the floor. Seems sometimes like people with OCD work here. I was very curious what will be built of them.

Must be OCD

Even that they didn't prepare room yet, they already post three white canvas for some artist to make new art pieces (which value will probably rise the entrance ticket to museum, when they are finished). They were there just waiting for Mona Lisa of new age to be painted.

Canvas ready to be painted

This table was surrounded by old TVs. I supposed this room will be for cocktail parties. (I really hope they will put some clean tablecloth, and not keep this one with shoes on it, and that they will change TVs for some modern plasma). I read Marina Abramovic name beside, and I am so proud that one person from my country participates. I am sure that she will rock it as a hostess!

Room for the cocktail party

When the atmosphere warm up around the table, neon lights of disco are ready for the party.

In the disco

This room is reserved to be a bathroom. Its interesting how we made a cult of some artist saving sometimes a bit bizarre subjects. The name on the urinal doesn't look so familiar to me, but I could imagine that it has some twisted history...some famous artists who for example used always same urinal, visiting Tate before restoration or something similar. 

Toilet

They were some lipsticks in the same bathroom. Maybe it is not very good idea to put men and women toilet together, but I will not judge. Maybe it is the step forward in erasing the diferences between genders.

Cosmetics 

Tate Modern also has storage room with lot of bags.

Storage room

At the end, in the hall, I saw this nice letters which completely going with my styling, as you could notice (of course if you have sense for fashion and eye for beauty ;)) I am already dreaming about having them in my sleeping room. Luckily, Ikea is open in Serbia. I will check it out. 

LOVE

In general, it was one interesting walk trough rooms of this museum. I would like to come back again, when everything is finished. But I have one doubt...in one of the halls it is written "whole world + work = whole world". Did they realize that restoration is pointless, and decided to cancel everything and left things where they are? 

The conclusion?

These were jokes of course. There is some deeper sense of (some of) these art pieces. Modern art is not about watching, it is about thinking. Don't be suspicious, let's focus just on one piece. 

Could you imagine metaphor of adapter? Would you like to have an adapter for different situations in life? To adapt to changes. To adapt to cultural differences. To adapt to new job, to new country, to new friends. If we don't take our small invisible adapters, life would be harder and very sad. When you use an adapter for too long, you decide if you want to change your plug or you just keep using it as a part of socket. 

Find the metaphor

Ok, this one of the photo is not from Tate, I bought it to charge the phone in supermarket. But still...keep smiling. Keep thinking.