Rachel Whiteread Internal Objects Gagosian Gallery Review
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Rachel Whiteread Internal Objects Gagosian Gallery Review Poltergeist ( main picture) and doppelganger, the works that dominate internal objects, rachel whiteread ’s powerful and moving new show at the gagosian gallery, imply isolation and are a vision of sheds destroyed, broken apart – structures that speak of a post apocalyptic, unpeopled world. no home offices there. Rachel whiteread, poltergeist, 2020, corrugated iron, beech, pine, oak, household paint and mixed media, 305 x 280 x 380cm.courtesy the artist and gagosian. there’s a void in these works that’s both like and unlike the literal cavities of spaces that whiteread has previously cast in order to preserve: those notices without messages, or the circular indentations pressed into the cardboard.
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Rachel Whiteread Internal Objects Grosvenor Hill London April 12 The sixth episode of gagosian premieres celebrates rachel whiteread’s exhibition internal objects at gagosian, grosvenor hill, london, with a conversation between the artist and art critic and curator iwona blazwick, and performances by composer and pianist max richter and poet mark waldron. watch now. Rachel whiteread was born in essex in 1963. in 1993 she came to prominence with house when she cast a victorian terraced house due for demolition in concrete. the work drew controversy and tower hamlets borough council had the work demolished at the beginning of 1994. whiteread heard of the decision to destroy house on the same night she became. Gagosian is to present internal objects, an exhibition of new work by rachel whiteread. whiteread employs the formal language of minimalism, taking cues from its emphasis on geometric seriality, yet adds a quietly emotive aspect, maintaining an acute sensitivity to objects’ minor details and subtle markers of use and human irregularity. Internal objects on the face of it represents a significant departure for rachel whiteread: poltergeist and döppelganger are a decisive break from those years of casting the spaces around things.
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Rachel Whiteread Internal Objects Grosvenor Hill London April 12 Gagosian is to present internal objects, an exhibition of new work by rachel whiteread. whiteread employs the formal language of minimalism, taking cues from its emphasis on geometric seriality, yet adds a quietly emotive aspect, maintaining an acute sensitivity to objects’ minor details and subtle markers of use and human irregularity. Internal objects on the face of it represents a significant departure for rachel whiteread: poltergeist and döppelganger are a decisive break from those years of casting the spaces around things. Rachel whiteread: internal objects is at gagosian grosvenor hill from april 12 to june 6 create a free account to continue reading registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism. A series of stacked plaster panels that form the inside of a victorian living room in ghost (1990); her turner prize winning house (1993), for which she cast the entire inside space of a dwelling scheduled for demolition; the holocaust memorial installed at vienna’s judenplatz in 2000. internal objects may well change that assumption.
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