Limited space available. Please RSVP to Meela@contemporaryartsociety.org to receive your private Zoom meeting link.
Please join us on Zoom on 18 March when we shall be doing an online studio visit with British European artist Tacita Dean in her Berlin studio.
Tacita Dean works with film, drawing and other mediums and is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris. Her film portraits express something that neither painting nor photography can capture. They are purely film. And while Dean can appreciate the past, her art avoids any kind of academic approach. Dean’s art is carried by a sense of history, time and place, light quality and the essence of the film itself. The focus of her subtle but ambitious work is the truth of the moment, the film as a medium and the sensibilities of the individual.
Tacita Dean (b. 1965, Kent) earned her MA at the Slade School of Art in 1992, and BA at Falmouth University in 1988. Recent solo exhibitions include EMMA, Espoo (2020); Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (2019); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2018); and three concurrent shows in London in 2018: Tacita Dean: LANDSCAPE at the Royal Academy of Arts, Tacita Dean: PORTRAIT at the National Portrait Gallery and Tacita Dean: STILL LIFE at the National Gallery.
Tacita Dean is one of the most significant artists of her generation and was artist in residence at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles in 2014 -15, a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Los Angeles, California.
The Contemporary Art Society have purchased a total of 18 works by Tacita Dean: six to The Whitworth, Manchester; six to Leeds Art Gallery; four to Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne; one to The Collection and Usher Gallery, Lincoln; and one to Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate. The first work the CAS purchased by the artist was A Bag of Air (1995), black and white 16 mm film with 3 minutes optical sound, purchased in 1995 for Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne.
Limited space available. Please RSVP to Meela@contemporaryartsociety.org to receive your private Zoom meeting link.