Rachel Whiteread, whose new show is at the Gagosian in London, talks about the pandemic, dump-digging, deserts, historic influences and working in a new and different way
by JUL...
In the most substantial survey of Rachel Whiteread’s work to date, the Tate looks back over 30 years of her sculptures
Tate Britain, London 12 September 2017 – 21 January 20...
Rachel Whiteread is the most successful and original artist to have filled the big space at Tate Modern, the Turbine Hall. Her white landscape of cubic boxes offers the museum-go...
Their legacy includes Rachel Whiteread’s cast of a terraced house, Roger Hiorns transformation of a council flat into a blue crystal cave and Michael Landy’s destruction of a...
... and shifting perspectives engendered by their work have filtered into the mainstream. If there were no Caro, there might be no Rachel Whiteread, no Richard Long, no Mike N...
... is echoed by Rachel Whiteread’s Untitled (For WHP) (2015), a mesmerising translucent grey-blue resin cast of a window through which we see not the gallery but a wall of ...
... and (Guy Debord’s) The Society of the Spectacle. Then I made this piece and Rachel Whiteread came up and did a tutorial and encouraged me to put it in - I was grateful t...
... shown in the collector’s home, a nod, perhaps, to the exhibition Living Today (1959) and the Wakefield collection’s own history. Works by Roger Hilton, Rachel Whiterea...
... confront the hollows, voids and empty or negative spaces in works as diverse as Barbara Hepworth’s Configuration (Phira) (1955), Mirosław Bałka’s How It Is (2009) or...
... strongly with work by the ever-present Yayoi Kusama (dotting five galleries), Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Bourgeois, Ana Mendieta, Nan Goldin, Mary Corse, Lynda Benglis, A...
... a strategy that artists such as Rachel Whiteread would adopt and extend decades later. For me, these works endure and remain the most interesting in the exhibition.
[ima...
... of practice and in the site-specific, interactive installation activated by its viewer. Echoes of Matta-Clark appear in the work of practitioners as different as Rachel Wh...
... after she retired from the teaching post she held for 20 years at the Slade School of Art, in 2009 (where she taught Tacita Dean, Rachel Whiteread, Douglas Gordon and Mart...
... the Hackney Empire.
[image14]
But his London was destined to change. His 1957 painting The Victoria – The Last House on Arline Street has a poignancy akin to that of...
... candy-cane minefield of blown glass, you would be forgiven for recalling Rachel Whiteread’s plaster and resin hot-water bottles on show across the river at Tate Britain....
... Me, Cover My Body In Love, 1996); a small Rachel Whiteread sculpture (Step, 2007-08) that looks rather like a pile of bars of translucent soap; and a Gillian Wearing photo...
... Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina (Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo), for example. Then there is Rachel Whiteread’s Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (known as th...
... Rachel Whiteread, Richard Deacon, Tony Carter and Michael Craig-Martin - curated by the Griffin Gallery’s Becca Pelly-Fry and sculptor Steve Johnson. But it is the disco...
... the kinds of art that doesn’t normally have a permanent London showcase; boundary-blurring art, for the most part. There is Between Object and Architecture on level 2 (C...
... language.” Her mark-making from the landscape owes a debt to the Spanish painter Antoni Tàpies, and her use of plaster and wax to Rachel Whiteread’s haunting work. Re...
-300.jpg)
