Rachel Whiteread.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whiteread, Rachel, 1963-

Contributor:

Dennison, Lisa.

Houser, Craig.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whiteread, Rachel, 1963---Exhibitions.

Whiteread, Rachel.

Whiteread, Rachel, 1963-.

Buildings--England--London.

Buildings.

Space (Architecture).

Installations (Art)--England--London.

Installations (Art).

England--London.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Rachel Whiteread : transient spaces

Transient spaces

Place of Publication:

New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, [2001]

Summary:

Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963) creates spare, poetic sculptures that challenge perceptions of the commonplace. Working from everyday domestic items, she casts -- in rubber, concrete, plaster, and polyester resin -- the negative spaces inside closets and underneath beds, sinks, bathtubs, and chairs. Now, in what may be her most personal project to date, the Turner Prize-winning artist has been commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin to make two large-scale casts from distinct spaces in a London building that she recently purchased to become her home and studio. Although the building has a history as both a synagogue and a factory, it is a product of austere postwar architecture, lacking many of the traditional embellishments associated with such structures.

This fully illustrated volume documents Whiteread's process as she creates casts from this religious-cum-industrial-cum-personal space, which blurs boundaries between the spiritual and secular, as well as the public and private.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, October 27, 2001 - January 13, 2002.

Title from cover.

Organized by Lisa Dennison with Craig Houser.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0810969343

0892072520

OCLC:

48915544