Thursday, 25 October 2012

Rachel whiteread

Rachel Whiteread, CBE (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She won the annual Turner Prize  in 1993—the first woman to win the prize.



In this photo there are cardboard boxes that are all white, stacked up on each other to make a shape that gives the impression of a city because of the different heights and mostly the shape. It has been placed into a big hall where the artist can expand on the art piece weather how high or wide it may be.
What I think about this art work is that how she creates a city out of cardboard boxes, which is really cool because it looks so unique and I've never seen any type art like this before so it's quite mindblowing.

Rachel whiteread was commissioned to do this at the Whitechapel Gallery in June 2012. It has said that the meaning behind this was that Whiteread’s plans to work negative casts of the existing windows into the motif, highlights her continued fascination with space.  Negative space becomes an object.  Air becomes palpable.  Objects and space take on a universality of stuff.

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