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A tower of 800 whispering radios: Cildo Meireles' Babel at the Tate Modern, London - urban75: art, photos, walks
![A tower of 800 whispering radios: Cildo Meireles' Babel at the Tate Modern, London - urban75: art, photos, walks A tower of 800 whispering radios: Cildo Meireles' Babel at the Tate Modern, London - urban75: art, photos, walks](http://www.urban75.org/blog/images/tate-modern-cildo-meireles-babel-04.jpg)
A tower of 800 whispering radios: Cildo Meireles' Babel at the Tate Modern, London - urban75: art, photos, walks
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800 Radios Tower Over You in Overwhelming Installation Artwork | by Oli Gudgeon | Contemporary Sound Art | Medium
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A tower of 800 whispering radios: Cildo Meireles' Babel at the Tate Modern, London - urban75: art, photos, walks
![England, London, Tate Modern, Artwork titled Babel by Cildo Meireles dated 2001, Stock Photo, Photo et Image Droits gérés. Photo H44-20002793 | agefotostock England, London, Tate Modern, Artwork titled Babel by Cildo Meireles dated 2001, Stock Photo, Photo et Image Droits gérés. Photo H44-20002793 | agefotostock](https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/7a489f854a21370775b4e7d5873267c1/h44-20002793.jpg)
England, London, Tate Modern, Artwork titled Babel by Cildo Meireles dated 2001, Stock Photo, Photo et Image Droits gérés. Photo H44-20002793 | agefotostock
Kyle Worde - Babel 2001 is a large-scale sculptural installation at the Tate Modern, that takes the form of a circular tower made from hundreds of second-hand analogue radios that the artist (
![Tate on Twitter: "We're cleaning some of our most-loved artworks while our doors are closed. Here's conservator Marco at work on Cildo Meireles' 'Babel', a tower of radios tuned to different stations. Tate on Twitter: "We're cleaning some of our most-loved artworks while our doors are closed. Here's conservator Marco at work on Cildo Meireles' 'Babel', a tower of radios tuned to different stations.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Enwls5MWMAQDgqf.jpg)
Tate on Twitter: "We're cleaning some of our most-loved artworks while our doors are closed. Here's conservator Marco at work on Cildo Meireles' 'Babel', a tower of radios tuned to different stations.
![London, UK. 24th Nov, 2020. Cildo Meireles' towering sculptural installation, Babel 2001, undergoing a specialist clean by the conservation department, while the Tate Modern galleries are closed. A Tate conservator begins the London, UK. 24th Nov, 2020. Cildo Meireles' towering sculptural installation, Babel 2001, undergoing a specialist clean by the conservation department, while the Tate Modern galleries are closed. A Tate conservator begins the](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2DD4B8D/london-uk-24th-nov-2020-cildo-meireles-towering-sculptural-installation-babel-2001-undergoing-a-specialist-clean-by-the-conservation-department-while-the-tate-modern-galleries-are-closed-a-tate-conservator-begins-the-painstaking-process-of-cleaning-each-of-the-hundreds-of-individual-radios-that-make-up-the-sculpture-using-a-genie-to-reach-the-top-of-the-8-metre-tower-the-radios-are-tuned-to-a-multitude-of-stations-which-together-produce-a-cacophony-of-low-continuous-sound-credit-guy-bellalamy-live-news-2DD4B8D.jpg)
London, UK. 24th Nov, 2020. Cildo Meireles' towering sculptural installation, Babel 2001, undergoing a specialist clean by the conservation department, while the Tate Modern galleries are closed. A Tate conservator begins the
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A tower of 800 whispering radios: Cildo Meireles' Babel at the Tate Modern, London - urban75: art, photos, walks
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