Tacita Dean
04 March - 29 May 2011
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| Tacita Dean
(Ausschnitt) Craneway Event, 2009
© Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York |
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TACITA DEAN
The Line of Fate
04.03.-29.05.11
Tacita Dean who was born 1965 in Canterbury and lives in Berlin is
concerned with historical processes and the wealth of narratives from
past times that can be evoked in the present day. After a number of
retrospectives in the past few years–at the Musée d’Art Moderne in
Paris, for instance, at the Schaulager in Basel or the Guggenheim Museum
in New York–Tacita Dean will be presenting a new work group in her
first solo exhibition in Austria. Its subject matter circles the
creative potential of recording systems.
The title of the show plays with multiple readings of line drawing, the
path of 'lifelines' and the linearity of filmic narratives and image
sequences. Just as lines can connect up different points, the artist
connects up different media–film, photography, drawing, and books–in her
work. She compares film to 'drawing with light', she overpaints
photographs, and photographs drawings. In her most recent film work Dean
concentrates on the subject of the creative processes of
representation: in Craneway Event (2009) she documents Merce
Cunningham’s rehearsals of a performance in a modernist Ford factory
near San Francisco and, in two films about Giorgio Morandi, she plumbs
the relationship between the real objects in his still life and their
drawn, multiply-overlaid markings on the work surface. A film about Cy
Twombly which is being made in cooperation with the MUMOK will be shown
for the first time.
Curator
Achim Hochdörfer
www.mumok.at
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