Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces (Guggenheim Museum Publications)

Whiteread, Rachel, Houser, Craig, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin

ISBN 10: 0810969343 / ISBN 13: 9780810969346

Published by Guggenheim Museum Pubns, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces (Guggenheim Museum Publications)
• Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Pubns
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810969343
• ISBN 13: 9780810969346
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

A Guggenheim Museum Publication
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.
75 illustrations in full color, 170 pages, 9 x 11"

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.