Survey by Jean-Christophe Royoux, Interview by Marina Warner, Focus by Germaine Greer, Artist`s Choice by W B Yeats and W G Sebald, Writings by Tacita Dean
Ebat: 290 x 250mm

Sayfa: 160 

100 col, 25 b&w illus.
Karton Kapak

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Although she emerged in the 1990s, Berlin-based English artist Tacita Dean has in her work a quiet depth that sets her apart from the hype of the ‘cool Britannia scene. Her film installations explore the ways that chance and coincidence influence daily life, constructing narratives that connect past and present, fact and fiction, private histories and larger events. In Disappearance at Sea (1996), Disappearance at Sea II (1997) and Teignmouth Electron (2000) Dean documents the tragic account of Donald Crowhurst and his attempt to fake a solo voyage around the globe, which culminated in his eventual loss of sanity and his death at sea. These works tell Crowhurst`s story through various fragments and landscapes, including a magnificent sea vista from a lighthouse beacon that produces a mysterious ‘missing narrative (as the artist calls it) reminiscent of 19th century atmospheric seascape and landscape painters.
Dean`s impulse to archive forgotten fragments of history is perhaps best captured in FLOH (2002), a collection of photographs she discovered in flea markets across Europe and America – holiday snaps or banal occurrences retrieved and preserved for the future. Other works include a jukebox filled with ambient sounds recorded around the world on the eve of the new millennium (Jukebox, 2000), a rotating view of Berlin from the Fernsehturm television tower (Fernsehturm, 2001) and a frustrated attempt to follow directions (as misleading as they are meticulous) to Robert Smithson s submerged Spiral Jetty in Utah s Great Salt Lake (Trying to Find the Spiral Jetty, 1997).
Tacita Dean`s work has been presented at museums and galleries throughout the world (including the DePont Foundation, Tilburg, the Netherlands; Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Tate Britian, London; Fundacao la Caixa, Barcelona; the Hirsshorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Musee d Art Modern de la Ville de Paris; and Museu Serralves, Portugal) as well as international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (2003 and 2005). Her films have also been screened at the Sundance Film Festival.