Rachel Whiteread - House - theEYE

Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London's East End. Holocaust Memorial is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet she also frequently works on a domestic scale, casting in plaster and resin the spaces inside, around and beneath furniture, floors and staircases. Her art is a uniquely poetic response to the everyday, and to the haunting themes of memory and mortality.

In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her best-known sculptures, including Ghost, her first cast of the space inside a complete room, and Monument, which established a shimmering presence in London's Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001. She also outlines the complexities of creating her often technically challenging works, and reflects on the controversies that they have sometimes set off.

theEYE is an excellent introduction to contemporary artists and their works and provides an ideal resource for a wide range of audiences, including galleries, museums and colleges, as well as individual art-lover.

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[lassie55]

scandalous that the council demolished this

[faronisa]

I love her works! I would like to meet her.

[gritnyc]

absolutely brilliant

[junction666]

I love this piece and when I heard it was to be demolished asked my daughter who was at university in London at the time and luckily living close by to take photographs for me. It was demolished only the following day!....a tragedy!

[phrawgg2]

She's brilliant.

[eyejudgeeverything]

RW is a great artist.

[caroljbowie]

Woderful Work of Art