We're loving Brazilian conceptual artist Cildo Meireles' Red Shift room at Tate Modern. The piece was conceived, as Meireles puts it, as "a place in which someone, for some reason – whether due to preference, mania, imposition or circumstance – would accumulate in a given place the greatest possible number of objects in different shades of red."
More images after the jump...
We see this, maybe not implemented quite so thoroughly, as a great jumping off point for a monochromatic space. What about you? Would you consider a room done entirely in one shade?
For those in London, the Meireles exhibition runs through January 11, 2008.
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The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Hunslet Dinner Plate
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Easy Pitcher Cocktail Recipe: Strawberry Basil Margaritas
Comments (16)
What if there were one object that were another shade?
Like a kelly green pillow?
The room would vibrate.
I spy something...red!
"Would you consider a room done entirely in one shade?"
This is two shades: Red and White.
However, many folks already stick to one color in their rooms: Beige.
why does this remind me of "the shining"??
Um, no.
redrum.
yikes!
Great. But why go half way? The walls need to be red too.
This probably looks better in the picture than in person.
Only one way to find out...
I like it!
And my that I mean I'd take a stab it living in it ( no pun intended). Imagine this in a house done room by room- a red room, blue room, brown room, yellow room- including the wall color. What a wild and surreal way to see how colors affect your mood...
I prefer the way Marlon does things like in his green (and then blue) pad, which ended up in the "Apartment Therapy Presents..." book. He did color on his walls, but just black and white on everything else. It was just genius and beautiful.
Makes me want to ride thru on a Big Wheel.
Sunspot42, you just destroyed me! Too funny, and exactly right---
Run. Away.
I've seen good moncromatic rooms but this just gives me a headache.
Wow, I wish I was in London now... I saw a Meireles exhibition at the New Museum when I was at NYU about 10 years ago and it was incredible!