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Exhibitions currently running:
Rachel Whiteread: Detached - Her title calls by name the process of abstracting or distantiating from reality that is an intrinsic part of the artistic process. Whiteread’s sculpture is predicated on casting procedures, and the traces left on the sacrificial objects and spaces from which the final inverse form is derived. She casts from everyday objects as well as from the space beneath or around furniture and architecture, using single materials such as rubber, dental plaster, and resin to record every nuance. Detached 1, Detached 2, and Detached 3 (2012) render the empty interior of a garden shed in concrete and steel. Cast from generic wooden sheds, the large-scale sculptures render negative space into solid form, and the prosaic into something fantastically disquieting. The sheds recall the monolithic architectural and site-specific works for which Whiteread first became renowned, such as Ghost (1990) and House (1993) and, most recently, the imposing concrete sculpture Boathouse (2010), installed on the water’s edge in the remote Nordic landscape of Røykenviken. From 11 April until 25 May.
Florian Maier-Aichen - A photographer schooled on both sides of the Atlantic, Maier-Aichen’s work reflects on the dual influences of the history of photography and the history of painting. Focusing on the camera’s consummate power to establish typologies of thought, perception, and feeling, he produces images that, in mining the past, come to embody a matrix of issues highly relevant to photographic practice today. Approaching his chosen field like a painter approaches a canvas, Maier-Aichen does for the contemporary image-world what pictorial photographers attempted in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using the strategies and motifs of then-contemporary genre painting. In a creative process that is as intensive as it is subtle and opaque, he combines an exhaustive range of staged effects and traditional photographic techniques with drawing and current computer-imaging processes, sandwiching all sources together to develop different levels and frequencies of information within a single image. From 11 April until 25 May.
Gagosian Gallery
6-24 Britannia Street
London WC1X 9JD
Tel 0207 841 9960 Fax 0207 841 9961
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Gagosian
Gallery
17-19 Davies Street
London W1K 3DE
Tel 0207 493 3020 Fax 0207 493 3025
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Opening hours during exhibitions:
Tuesday to Saturday 10am until 6pm
www.gagosian.com
