The first major book on one of England's most important young artists. At a time when young British artists are receiving international acclaim and attention, Rachel Whiteread is generally considered to be one of the foremost sculptors of her generation. First nominated for the Turner Prize in 1991, she was awarded the prize in 1993. The same year, she confirmed her increasing national and international reputation with House, the sculpture cast from a condemned terraced house in East London. In November 1996, her Holocaust Memorial, one of Europe's most prestigious public commissions of this decade, was inaugurated in Vienna's Judenplatz. Whiteread works with everyday objects and, above all, with the spaces in, under, or around them. Her castings interrogate the familiar, looking under the rug and inside the closet at the spaces and structures among which we live. This book, produced in collaboration with the artist, is the most comprehensive publication to date on her work; it accompanies a major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery. It includes a conversation between the artist and noted critic Rosalind Krauss, and essays by Michael Tarantino, Bartomeu Mari, and Stuart Morgan.
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Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life is published on the occasion of a major exhibition of Whiteread's sculpture at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain's foremost sculptures, casting directly from familiar, everyday objects, she makes manifest the spaces in, under, on and between things, looking under the carpet and inside the wardrobe at the spaces and structures among which we live. Whiteread's sculpture has gained her national and international acclaim, winning the Turner Prize in 1993, and the commission to design a Holocaust memorial for Judenplatz in Vienna in 1995. Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life is designed in collaboration with the artist and is extensively illustrated throughout. An introduction is provided by Fiona Bradley (Exhibitions Curator at the Tate Gallery Liverpool). Informative text is provided by Rosalind Krauss (Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory at Columbia University in New York), Bartomeu Mari (Director of the Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam), Stuart Morgan (writer and critics), and Michael Tarantino (independent curator. Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life is a highly recommended addition to all academic and public library book collections on the art of sculpture. -- Midwest Book Review
[B]eautiful and immensely rewarding... -- The Times [London]
[B]eautiful and immensely rewarding... -- The Times [London]
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