Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010: Fiona Banner

Art Review“A sort of sacred, altarlike spectacle...” The danger – and triumph – that aesthetic experience always poses, and which now lies as much in the representation of reality as it does in art. The danger, perhaps, of wars fought empty of narrative, but overflowing with sensation...

Time Out“Both grandiose and gimmicky at the same time...” Neither installation is a patch on previous pieces by Banner - her newspaper archives, maquettes, and transcriptions of action movies - where war and fighter planes were dealt with at the level of representation: as images, icons, potent symbols...

this is london“Banner emphasises the beauty of these jets...” These jets are, after all, killing machines, and in beautifying them, Banner makes us look even more closely at them, more aware of their streamlined menace...

The Telegraph“There is a ''terrible beauty'' in all this: go and see it...” Harrier and Jaguar is a magnificent thing, or pair of things, and it works so well because it takes perfect advantage of the place for which it was commissioned...so different in purpose from their surroundings, yet so complementary in their form...

The Independent“Banner's jets have a capacity to scare...” To acknowledge the sulphurous beauty of war is not to endorse it: it is to alert us to contradictions in ourselves. That alone would make Banner's installation subversive, but, quietly and eloquently, it teases on another level as well...

The Scotsman“Not yet reviewed”

The Observer“Not yet reviewed”

The Times“Not yet reviewed”

Financial Times“Not yet reviewed”

Guardian“Not yet reviewed”