Tacita Dean

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Not without reason the British artist Tacita Dean in recent years have been discovered, while the concept art of the late seventies a revival in the exhibition industry learned. Dean goes in search of clues without searching. She finds her subjects in images that you in a Tuscan church tower or at flea markets in Berlin encounter. Under its engagement unfold anonymous images have become a whole new world, possible stories. After Dean was old postcards photo engravings made and signed with a white pencil comments and announcements made storyboards On. On a compressed image, is developing an entire film. The black photo engravings reminiscent of the famous board drawings of the artist. With white chalk, it had storyboards drawn on school boards. In Düsseldorf Kunstverein fought a sailboat through the foamy white waves of a black sea. "Chère Sœurs petite" stands in the upper left corner of the table, while the second board the ship capsize and the stage direction 'CUT' calls. Dean's works are characterized by a Feingespür for materials. The matte black of the large panels with the structure of the pasty white chalk drew the viewer into the depth of these images. Dean suggests the imagination of the viewer and takes them through the dark ocean on a journey. In the right corner of the shipwreck, was hopeful wrote: "to be continued". Tacita Dean, born 1965 in Canterbury, lives in London and Berlin.

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