The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean
11 October 2011 - 09 April 2012
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THE UNILEVER SERIES:
TACITA DEAN
11 October 2011 – 9 April 2012
Tacita Dean will be the next artist to create a commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall as part of the Unilever Series.
Tacita Dean is a British artist now based in Berlin, best known for her
use of film. Dean’s films act as portraits or depictions rather than
conventional cinematic storytelling, capturing fleeting natural light or
subtle shifts in movement. Her static camera positions and long takes
allow events to unfold unhurriedly. Other works have attempted to
reconstruct events from memory, such as an infamous thwarted attempt to
circumnavigate the world.
Dean’s interest in the cinematic also extends to her work in other
media. The Russian Ending 2001 borrows its title from the early Danish
cinema tradition of making two alternate endings for a film: one happy
for the American market and one tragic for the Russian market. In this
work, Dean annotated postcards of catastrophes with director's notes.
Many of Dean’s works show the ways in which architecture can be
transformed by the camera's lens. Craneway Event 2009 follows the
choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) and his dance company
rehearsing in a former Ford assembly plant, built of glass and steel and
overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Dean’s film allows the ever-changing
light of this environment to fall in rhythm with the dancers’
movements.
Dean will be making a new commission especially designed to respond to
the architecture of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. The Unilever Series has
become renowned as one of the most exciting and impressive contemporary
art exhibitions in London each year and will be free to view.
The Unilever Series: an annual art commission sponsored by Unilever
www.tate.org.uk/modern
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