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The Guardian - UK
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Sea change: Turner Contemporary gallery's opening exhibition

Turner Contemporary: JMW Turner installation view at Turner Contemporary
The painting behind it all, snappily titled The Eruption of the Souffrier Mountains, in the Island of St Vincent, at Midnight, on the 30th of April, 1812, from a Sketch Taken at the Time by Hugh P Keane (oil on canvas, 1815)
Photograph: David Grandorge/Victoria Gallery & Museum
Turner Contemporary: Daniel Buren, installation view at Turner Contemporary
Daniel Buren's Borrowing and Multiplying the Landscape (2011), which hangs down from a first-floor gallery into the entrance lobby
Photograph: David Grandorge
Turner Contemporary: Douglas Gordon, installation view at Turner Contemporary
Afterturner (2000) by Douglas Gordon takes a lateral view of Turner's obsession with light and sunsets
Photograph: David Grandorge
Turner Contemporary: Ellen Harvey, installation view at Turner Contemporary
Arcadia (2011), a mixed-media installation by Ellen Harvey Photograph: David Grandorge/Locks Gallery
Turner Contemporary: Russell Crotty, installation view at Turner Contemporary
Russell Crotty's fibreglass-sphere contributions. From left to right: The Cape (2010); Near the Lost Coast (2007); Walking Towards Dreamland (2011) Photograph: David Grandorge
Turner Contemporary: Teresita Fernandez, installation view at Turner Contemporary
Miami-born artist Teresita Fernández's Sfumato (September 18) (2009), top, and Eruption (Small) (2005)
Photograph: David Grandorge/Lehmann Maupin Gallery
Turner Contemporary: Conrad Shawcross, installation view at Turner Contemporary
Conrad Shawcross indulges his fascination with science and philosophy in Projections of the Perfect Third (2011). From left to right: Limit of Everything; Harmonic Manifold; Perfect Third Photograph: David Grandorge/Victoria Miro Gallery
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