RACHEL WHITEREAD

EXPLORATION OF NEGATIVE SPACE

CASTING NEGATIVE SPACES

GHOST (1990)
CASTING NEGATIVE SPACE I had an idea of mummifying the sense of silence in the room. Rachel Whiteread

HOUSE (1993)
a reversal of an enclosing, comforting, dwelling, a place of repose and comfort, a symbol of domestic hopes and dreams. What was left was a monument to ones most private moments but with the privacy stripped bare and petrified. House monumentalized the past in a subversive manner, instead of allowing for a connection to and retrieval of the past, House subverted the warm cozy memories of home.

UNTITLED 100 SPACES (1997)

CASTING ABSENCE Composed of the underside of 100 chairs, displayed in a grid pattern

INFLUENCE: MINIMALISM BRUCE NAUMAN, A CAST OF SPACE UNDER MY CHAIR, 1965 - 1968

WATER TOWER (1998)

Give places and spaces to something that never had a place in this world Texture of water inside a tower

Solidifying water, water to look frozen in a moment of time

Completely takes on its environment and becomes part of the sky

JUDENPLATZ HOLOCAUST MONUMENT (2000)

The outside surfaces of the volume are cast library shelves turned inside out. The spines of the books are facing inwards and are not visible, therefore the titles of the volumes are unknown and the content of the books remains unrevealed. The shelves of the memorial appear to hold endless copies of the same edition, which stand for the vast number of the victims, as well as the concept of Jews as "People of the Book.

UNTITLED MONUMENT (2001)

provide a sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. 11 ton resin cast of the plinth itself, which stood upsidedown, making a sort of mirror-image of the plinth. largest object ever made out of resin

Critics response: She sees it not as a space to be filled, but as an absence to be acknowledged

EMBANKMENT (2005-2006)

Whiteread selected a number of differently-shaped old boxes found in her mother house

She filled them with plaster, peeled away the exteriors and was left with perfect casts, each recording and preserving all the bumps and indentations on the inside.

box in connection with memory and loss, perceiving the box as a keeper of collective memory.

CHARITY BOX (2007)

Sculpture for a charity auction Similar to installation in Embankment

Josef Albers
(1888 1976)

Colour Interactions

Style
Geometric abstraction

Untitled, 1942

Tenayuca, , 1936

Style
Manipulate human perception by color

Formulation: Articulation Folio II, Folder 18, 1972

Portfolio I : Folder 2, 1972

Colour Theory 1
Colour is constantly changing
-colour is in relation with the colors it is surrounded by.

Colour Theory 2
Colour is understood through experience
-Choice of the colors and their sequence influences and changes each other forth
and back.

Boxes move forth and back in and out near and far enlarged and diminished.
Homage to the Square series, 1949

Colour Theory 3
Colour reversal
- Creates two way 3D perceptions

Protruding outwards or inwards?

Colour Theory 4
Color is deceived continuously.
- Interaction of colours can create optical illusion

A transparent folded square appeared when slight different color with background is used.

Furniture

Murals
Manhattan, 1963 28 x 55 feet Lobby of the Pan-Am Building, New York City, USA(removed) Black, white and red strips arranged in interwoven columns. Strips seem 3d and floating.

Murals

Two Portals, 1961 Bronze and glass 12.75 x 4.25 m Time-Life Building, New York City, USA To create an illusion of depth.