ART
Rachel Whiteread |
Written 30 January |
Thursday 23 September, 11:00Galerie Nelson Freeman, 75004 [map]Rachel Whiteread
Galerie Nelson-Freeman presents recent sculptures and new drawings by the English artist
Rachel Whiteread.
Over the past twenty years, through redefining traditions of Minimal and Conceptual art, Rachel Whiteread has created an influential body of sculpture which explores the themes of absence and memory through the manipulation of architecture and space. Using industrial materials such as plaster, resin, and rubber, she often creates casts that reproduce the interior spaces of familiar objects, revealing unfamiliar negative spaces in which emptiness takes on a material presence and what was once invisible acquires a palpable shape.
For her first exhibition at Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Rachel Whiteread presents a series of sculptural works in which intimately-scaled casts in resin and pigmented plaster are grouped into still lifes; the familiar and ordinary objects of the kitchen cupboard and bathroom cabinet (cardboard tubes, food and medicine packages, fragments of packing materials) recombined into their own new landscape.
Rachel Whiteread was born in London in 1963 and continues to live and work there.
