A new installation in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern?
Antony Gerbil is interested in the way we interact with the overly familiar. By changing the presentation of the quotidien, he gently subverts our perception into a sense of radical unease, enabling a vision of numinous space wherein a post-modern sensibility co-opts a stale pre-modern scenario.
"In my work I'm engaging with ideas of theatricality, fiction and performance" says Gerbil. "The grand piano carries such elaborate narrative possibilities, and I'm trying here to turn these meta-fictions away from that solitary moment of precision, to a more ambiguous and richer vein of possibility where the actual perceptual act becomes freed from a normative linear and contextualised construct."
A former Turner Prize winner, whose installations have been exhibited at Berlin's Donnerschitzen Gallerei, the Ausfahrt fur Kunst in Vienna, the Nakasoto Pavilion in Tokyo and New York's Googlestein Gallery among others, Gerbil brings a keen subversive intelligence and conceptual rigour to his art. Tate Modern are proud to present the work of this profound and original artist in association with Technica Pharmaceuticals – "A pill for every occasion".
Possibly. Or it's just a piano waiting for Daniel Barenboim.
Mick Hartley 
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