Word: whiteread
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...that lights their world, is what disturbed me. This piece is a collage of houses. These houses are no longer just magazine photos on a page, as those that appear in her studies for “Place (Village),” which are also featured in the Whiteread exhibit. Instead, they are physical structures, and perhaps should not be cut so easily from their context, stripped of their contents, and placed together in a museum. And although “Place (Village)” succeeds in suggesting a sense of melancholy, the method feels overdone. The dollhouses immediately...
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...Pinch "Sculptural yet calm" is how London-based Pinch, a former assistant to Terence Conran, describes his Armoire collection of cupboards. The Alba, Frey and Marlow versions are made to order by U.K. craftsmen. With their brutalist paneling, they could be period concepts remixed by monumental British artist Rachel Whiteread. www.pinchdesign.com...
...circle like a ceiling fan, with a faux animal carcass hanging from each and dragging hellishly along the floor. As for those neon wall pieces, every artist working in painted or electronic words--there are lots of them--owes something to Nauman. And when the celebrated British artist Rachel Whiteread is done casting entire empty rooms in plaster, she can return the idea to Nauman, who long ago cast the empty space beneath a chair. "When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it," says...
...temperature" of the last three years, says co-curator Judith Nesbitt. And she senses some powerful currents in the work of artists of all ages and career stages, one being "the interrogation of the everyday." As well as Ataman's flower fanatic and Yokomizo's Strangers, there is Rachel Whiteread's plaster casting of the inside of a flat and the space under a staircase. Margaret Barron paints tiny cityscapes on adhesive tape that are stuck on handy surfaces somewhere near the actual locations. Several are sited in the Tate environs, at risk of being peeled off or fly-posted...