Tacita Dean

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Tacita Dean (2011)

Tacita Dean , CBE (born November 12, 1965 in Canterbury ) is an internationally renowned English artist. She works with film, photography, painting, drawing, sound installation and visual narration. Tacita Dean is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

Life and professional career

After graduating from the Falmouth School of Art, where she studied from 1985 to 1988, she received a one-year scholarship from 1989 to 1990 at the Athens School of Fine Arts and in 1992 she completed her studies at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In 2000 she started a scholarship in Berlin .

Dean said of her work and the attempt to capture the fleeting moment in pictures: "All things that I am attracted to are in a state of fading."

Dean lives and works in Berlin.

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Wanderlust by Tacita Dean (2009) from the holdings of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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Her work has been shown in international solo and group exhibitions since 1992. In 1998 she was nominated for the Turner Prize with Disapearance at Sea . The film shows observations of a lighthouse that begins its work at the beginning of the evening, which alternate with images of the ocean horizon in the evening light. Green Ray on Madagascar (2003) shows the so-called green ray of a sunset, a natural phenomenon that occurs at the last moment before the sun disappears behind the horizon.

A cross-media examination of the relationship between past and present is characteristic of the work of Tacita Dean, whose subjects are often people and buildings. Dean became internationally known primarily for her idiosyncratic 16-millimeter films. The works exude an almost meditative atmosphere due to their calm camera positions. Topics are time and passing. Dean often combines different artistic media. Her paper works often show the motif of the storyboard as if they were visual templates for a film. Her chalk drawings on supports such as black boards or magnetic tapes were often created in several phases, through erasure and overdrawing.

In her series The Russian Ending (2011) on a series of 20 handwritten photo engravings , she plays with the theme of the silent film and various export versions. In contrast to the films for the American market, these end tragically.

For the 2004/2005 season in the Vienna State Opera she designed the giant large picture (176 m²) Play as Cast as part of the exhibition series Eiserner Vorhang conceived by museum in progress .

Since April 26, 2016, her installation “The Regiment Daughter” has been on view in the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus of the Bundestag . There are 36 opera programs from the years 1934 to 1942 on loan from the House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany . Participation in the Taipei Biennale from September 2016 is planned.

Filmography

  • 1992: The Story of Beard
  • 1994: The Martyrdom of St Agatha (in several parts)
  • 1994: Girl Stowaway
  • 1995: How to Put a Boat in a Bottle
  • 1995: A Bag of Air
  • 1996: Disappearance at Sea
  • 1996: Delft Hydraulics
  • 1996: Foley Artist
  • 1997: Disappearance at Sea II
  • 1997: The Structure of Ice
  • 1998: Gellért
  • 1999: Bubble House
  • 1999: Sound Mirrors
  • 1999: From Columbus, Ohio, to the Partially Buried Woodshed
  • 1999: Banewl
  • 2000: Teignmouth Electron
  • 2000: Totality
  • 2001: TV tower
  • 2006: Kodak
  • 2008: Installation with six films Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS (in three movements) to John Cage's composition 4'33 with Trevor Carlson, New York City, April 28, 2007 (six performances; six films)
  • 2009: Craneway Event (also the last film ever made with and about Merce Cunningham )
  • 2011: film , installation. Tate Modern , London
  • 2018: Antigone, Royal Academy , London, Kunsthaus Bregenz

Prices

  • 2009: Kurt Schwitters Prize for Fine Art from the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation
  • 2006: Hugo Boss Prize
  • 2005: The Sixth Benesse Prize, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, The 51st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale
  • 2004: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
  • 2002: Nomination for the National Gallery Prize for Young Art , Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
  • 2002: Art Prize Aachen
  • 2000–01: DAAD Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin, Germany
  • 1999: Artist in Residence, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
  • 1998: The Turner Prize (nomination), Tate Gallery , London, England
  • 1997: Scriptwriter's Lab, Sundance Institute, Sundance, Utah
  • 1994: Barclay's Young Artist Award, London, England

literature

  • Christiane Weidemann, Petra Larass, Melanie Klier (eds.): 50 women artists you should know Prestel Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7913-3957-3 , pp. 164–167
  • Tacita Dean: Analogue: Drawings 1991-2006 , Steidl , Göttingen, ISBN 3-86521-289-1
  • Hannelore Kersting (arrangement): Contemporary art. 1960 to 2007 . Municipal Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, 2007, ISBN 978-3-924039-55-4
  • Tacita Dean: "FLOH" - limited edition of an illustrated book, Steidl, 2002, ISBN 978-3882436730
  • Tacita Dean: "The Regiment's Daughter" - limited edition of an illustrated book, Steidl, 2005, ISBN 978-3865212023

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bio | Tacita Dean | Frith Street Gallery. (No longer available online.) In: www.frithstreetgallery.com. Archived from the original on August 3, 2016 ; Retrieved August 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frithstreetgallery.com
  2. ↑ Christiane Weidemann, Petra Larass, Melanie Klier (eds.): 50 women artists you should know Prestel Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7913-3957-3 , p. 165
  3. ↑ a b Dr. Andreas Kaernbach: The regiment daughter . www.bundestag.de, accessed on August 3, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Taipei Biennial 2016. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
  5. ^ Tacita Dean, 'The Roaring Forties: Seven Boards in Seven Days' 1997. In: Tate. Retrieved August 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Dean, Tacita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Canterbury , England