LANDSCAPE by Tacita Dean
17/05/2018.
Royal Academy of Arts [LON]UK 19.05 > 12.08.2018
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Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Royal Academy, well known artist Tacita Dean will exhibit pioneering, poetic work in the new galleries.
Tacita Dean working on 'The Montafon Letter', Los Angeles, 2017 by Tacita Dean. Photograph by Fredrik Nilsen Studio. Artwork: Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland. © Courtesy the artist; Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris, via Royal Academy
Tacita Dean, Majesty, 2006. Gouache on photograph mounted on paper. 300 x 420 cm. Tate: Presented by Tate Members 2008. Photo: © Tate, London, 2018. © Courtesy the artist; Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, via Royal Academy
Tacita Dean, Antigone, 2018. 2 synchronised 35mm anamorphic colour films, optical sound, with a running time of exactly one hour. Film still (detail). © Courtesy the artist, Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, via Royal Academy
Tacita Dean, Four, Five, Six, Seven and Nine Leaf Clover Collection, 1972–present. © Courtesy the artist; Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris. Photograph by Augustin Garza, via Royal Academy
Tacita Dean’s interest in landscape phenomena has taken her around the world. The traditional art genres of portraiture, still life and landscape are explored by Berlin-based Tacita Dean in an collaboration between three of London’s major art galleries:
At the National Portrait Gallery, Dean presents a number of her films that focus on the portraiture of artists including David Hockney. At the National Gallery, she will curate a selection of works from the gallery’s collection along with the presentation of a site-specific film to explore the legacy of still life and its influential impact on her practice. And at the RA, she’ll be the first artist to exhibit in the new Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries where she’ll be presenting works that consider all aspects of the landscape genre from botany to cosmography.
In the newly opened Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, the artist and Royal Academician will explore “landscape” in its broadest sense: intimate collections of natural found objects, a mountainous blackboard drawing and a series of cloudscapes in chalk on slate created especially for these spaces will draw you into Dean’s vision.
The highlight of the exhibition will be a major new, experimental 35mm film, Antigone, shown as two simultaneous cinemascope projections. This quasi-narrative film features writer/poet Anne Carson and actor Stephen Dillane and combines multiple places, geologies and seasons into a spectacular cinematographic frame using the same masking technique first developed by Dean for her Tate Modern Turbine Hall project FILM (2011).
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Dates
Tacita Dean.- PORTRAIT is at the National Portrait Gallery until May 28, 2018;
Tacita Dean.- STILL LIFE is at the National Gallery until May 28, 2018;
Tacita Dean.- LANDSCAPE is at the Royal Academy of Arts from May 19 until August 12, 2018.
Venue
Royal Academy of Arts. 6 Burlington Gardens. London W1S 3ET. UK
Timetable
10am – 6pm Saturday – Thursday; 10am – 10pm Fridays
Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean graduated from Falmouth School of Art in 1988; studied at the Supreme School of Fine Art, Athens and took her Masters at the Slade School of Fine Art 1990 – 1992.
She trained as a painter, but is best known as a filmmaker. Her poignant narratives, which fuse fiction and reality, are imbued with elliptical allusions. Her abiding themes are the sea and architectural relics.
She was awarded the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize, the DAAD Fellowship, and in 1998 was short-listed for the Turner Prize. In 2011-12, her piece FILM was featured in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern as part of the Unilever series. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2013.
