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Tate that! Gallery's giant slides up for sale
By Anna Davis, Evening Standard 13.11.06
Tube ride: the slides have been a huge draw at Tate Modern
The five massive slides on display at Tate Modern are for sale. Potential buyers will need an empty space at least five storeys high and a spare £300,000 if they want to acquire the popular exhibit.
Entitled Test Site, the slides spiral through the space linking the upper galleries with the Turbine Hall. The longest, at 180 feet, cost £50,000 in materials alone.
The slides will be taken down on 9 April and constructors have suggested they could find a permanent home by the London Eye or at a theme park.
They are the brainchild of German artist Carsten Holler and were built from 18 tons of stainless steel by German firm Wiegand Slides.
Spokesman Clive Newman said: "The whole thing has been designed to fit the Tate so wherever it goes will need a big space. We may even have to build a new tower so people can slide down the longest slide."
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Ok so art they may not be but I still think that these slides are/were one of the best exhibitions the Tate modern have ever had in this very very challenging space. I loved going down them and loved seeing them up close, they really are huge, but I didn't love the queue.
Go do this exhibit first and the gallery proper later on. You won't feel like queuing after a long tour.
- Tiffany Hall, Pimlico
