Rachel
Whiteread
Rachel
Whiteread
Whiteread
British, born in 1963
Through her unique moulding practice, Rachel Whiteread gives substance to the void. Chairs, baths, mattresses, shelves, stairs and even houses are revealed in negative, giving rise to contemplative and poetic objects. These "inverted" moulds in resin, plaster, rubber or concrete invite the viewer to bypass voids made full.
The British artist whose work was launched by the Young British Artists exhibitions in the early 1990s, has systematised the work begun by Bruce Nauman in 1965 with his piece A Cast of the Space Under My Chair. She adopts Corbusier’s affirmation that “the outside is always an inside”.
The artist’s work, including the monumental Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) - a series of one hundred resin moulds arranged in ten parallel lines - was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection in 2009 at the "Mapping the Studio" exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi.
The British artist whose work was launched by the Young British Artists exhibitions in the early 1990s, has systematised the work begun by Bruce Nauman in 1965 with his piece A Cast of the Space Under My Chair. She adopts Corbusier’s affirmation that “the outside is always an inside”.
The artist’s work, including the monumental Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) - a series of one hundred resin moulds arranged in ten parallel lines - was shown for the first time by the Pinault Collection in 2009 at the "Mapping the Studio" exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi.
