Rachel Whiteread. - Softcover

Colomina, Beatriz; Dennison, Lisa; Homes, A. M.; Deblonde, Gautier

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Synopsis

New Lower Price! Rachel Whiteread 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. In one of her most personal projects, the artist was commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin to make two large-scale casts from distinct spaces in a London building that she recently purchases as 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.

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Exhibition Schedule: Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin Oct. 20, 2001-Jan. 2002
Guggenheim Bilbao Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

About the Author

Beatriz Colomina is associate professor of architecture at Princeton University.
Lisa Dennison is deputy director and chief curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she has organized numerous exhibitions.
A. M. Homes, who has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, has written several novels, including Music for Torching and Jack.
Craig Houser is an assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Molly Nesbit is a professor of art history at Vassar College and contributing editor of Artforum.

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