rachelwhiteread

Tate Curator, Linsey Young, explores the work of Rachel Whiteread, one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists and the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993. Using industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural space, her evocative sculptures range from the intimate to the monumental.

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Rachel Whiteread : gefundene Form verlorener Gegenstand = found form lost object

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Book; Rachel Whiteread, House, 1995

page 8: House was literally rooted to its spot, but the meaning of Whiteread’s work was inherently unstable. …, House was both a closed arch

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"...which transforms the negative into a positive, the void into a solid, the inside to the outside, the cavity into plasticity."

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Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster (Published 2018)

Rachel Whiteread has spent decades making sculptures out of empty spaces. A retrospective at the National Gallery of Art is a model of her c

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room you can’t enter, stairs you can’t climb, and doors you can’t open

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