Rachel Whiteread's Embankment is a view of a mind at work.
In a sense, Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture EMBANKMENT began with an old, worn cardboard box. She found it in her mother’s house shortly after she died. Whiteread was going through her mother’s belongings when she came upon a box she remembered well.
The latest in the celebrated Unilever Series of commissions for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall has been undertaken by sculptor Rachel Whiteread. As one of Britain's leading contemporary sculptors, Whiteread has undertaken several significant public commissions.
Dame Rachel Whiteread DBE (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993. Whiteread was one of the Young British Artists who exhibited at the Royal Academy 's Sensation exhibition in 1997.
Rachel Whiteread’s cast of a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End was hailed as one of the greatest public sculptures by an English artist in the 20th century. Completed in autumn of 1993 and demolished in January 1994, House attracted tens of thousands of visitors and generated impassioned debate, in the local streets, the.
Whiteread is known for her castings in resin and plaster of familiar objects and the spaces they surround, and for her ability to make people see these objects and spaces anew. Water Tower is a resin cast of the interior of a once-functioning cedar water tower, chosen specifically for the texture this type of wood would impart to the surface.
Rachel Whiteread is famed for her use of casting to physically represent memory and absence. The progress of creating her vast sculpture for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is followed here, featuring dramatic installation photography.
The portfolio of 12 Objects, 12 Etchings functions like a permanent index to Whiteread’s collection. The mixture of objects ranges from instantly recognizable and mundane items, such as a jelly mould and a light switch, to the weird, wonderful and outright unidentifiable.
Mike Smith Studio was commissioned to undertake a Research and Development study to ascertain whether it would be possible to produce a replica of the empty fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square for Rachel Whiteread. The replica was to be produced in water-clear polyurethane resin, and would measure 5 metres long by 5 metres tall by 2.5.
Rachel Whiteread's Nine Tables: Formalist Object, Feminist Critique or Something In-Between? Daniel Ogilvie (R7205032) Page3 of 26 Introduction In this essay I will consider a sculpture, Untitled, (Nine Tables), (1998, Fig.1 and Fig.21), by the British artist, Rachel Whiteread. This.
Rachel Whiteread became the first woman to receive the Turner Prize with her sculpture House (1993), a replica of the interior of a condemned London house created by filling a house with concrete and stripping away the mold. Her sculptures examine the negative space surrounding or contained by objects, such as casts of the area beneath chairs, suggesting how human contact becomes embedded in.
A solid exhibition at Tate Britain on Rachel Whiteread's work. There are a number of pieces and lots of information free to view (without a ticket) which is a nice move.
Rachel Whiteread is an influential contemporary English sculptor known for her concrete casts of domestic spaces, architecture, and objects. View Rachel Whiteread’s 338 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available sculpture, prints and multiples, and works on paper for sale and learn about the.
Cod sponsorship. Grave goods. There are no other clues from which to uncode this al fresco celebration: no sightings, no culprits. We do not know, or need to know, who came here to honour the anniversary of Whiteread's extinguished vision. The full text forms part of the book Rachel Whiteread: House (Phaidon Press Limited 1995).
