A Tower That Could Reach the Heavens

Babel 2001 Cildo Meireles born 1948 Purchased jointly by Tate, London (with the assistance of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee) and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, 2013, as a promised gift to Tate http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T14041

Tariq from Tate Collective London shares his perspective on Cildo Mereiles’s work Babel. The sculpture was purchased jointly by Tate, London (with the assistance of the Tate Americas Foundation’s Latin American Acquisitions Committee) and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, 2013, as a promised gift to Tate. You can view the video here: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/meireles-babel-t14041/tower-that-could-reach-heavens


Past Tate News
5 June 2018