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Saturday 31 October 2009

Virtual Gallery, Room 2



This room features works by the Sculptor, Rachel Whiteread.





Whiteread is best known for various large scale works, such as the Tate Modern turbine hall installation "Embankment" and "House" - pictured below. Her works seek to show the world in a different light - often through taking the cast of a space rather than an object and then exhibiting that out of context.



Pictured are, from top to bottom:
  • Untitled (Novels)
  • Untitled (Pair) - which are made from casts taken from Mortuary slabs,
  • Untitled (Domestic) - which is the cast of a stairwell
  • Untitled Monument
  • House - the cast of an entire house

More information on the artist can be found here and here.

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2 comments:

  1. Stephen Chapman31 October 2009 at 10:00

    Thanks for sharing - I like the inside out house but didn't know who had made it.

    Tate Modern is a great place to visit - a true London landmark.

    As for the formatting, blogger can sometimes have a mind of its own.

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  2. Anonymous31 October 2009 at 13:46

    I love Rachel Whiteread's work. My favorite has always been the 'house'. But the Mortuary Slabs work is also thought evoking, they look a bit like turnstiles to enter the London Underground railway!

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