"...in her gigantic image T&I, made from 25 separate gravure prints. Gravure is a 19th-century process that brings together the camera and the pencil, with results that look somewhere between a photograph and a drawing - an unsettling, ghostly effect that makes it old-fashioned and inadequate as a means of reproducing images, and a natural medium for Dean's art. Across the 25 panels, you can read a single, vast landscape image, a panorama that it is no longer possible to see as a photograph because it has been so altered: over sea and hills is a fantastic white-silver sunburst, like a Turner or a baroque ceiling painting - or rather how that would look, reproduced as gravure. Across the separate images, however, there is a narrative I can't make full sense of, except that it is deeply personal, harrowing and cinematic, at once a great history painting and a film storyboard. The only contemporary art I can compare this with is that of Cy Twombly - and he is the best painter alive, so what does that make Tacita Dean?
This praise is not to belittle Dean's previous work, which has always been interesting, often brilliant. But she is maturing to greatness."
(written by Jonathan Jones, The Guardian)
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geb. 1965 in Canterbury, Großbritannien
lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und London
seit 2001 Zusammenarbeit mit der Werkstatt
More or Less
Fernweh
T & I
Blind Pan
Dead Budgie Project
The Russian Ending
FILM stills
Craneway Event
Darmstädter Werkblock
Palast
Fernsehturm
Installationsansicht im Schaulager
Basel, 2006
Tacita Dean: Analogue
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