Tacita Dean’s interest in landscape phenomena has taken her around the world. The traditional art genres of portraiture, still life and landscape are explored by Berlin-based Tacita Dean in an collaboration between three of London’s major art galleries:
At the National Portrait Gallery, Dean presents a number of her films that focus on the portraiture of artists including David Hockney. At the National Gallery, she will curate a selection of works from the gallery’s collection along with the presentation of a site-specific film to explore the legacy of still life and its influential impact on her practice. And at the RA, she’ll be the first artist to exhibit in the new Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries where she’ll be presenting works that consider all aspects of the landscape genre from botany to cosmography.
In the newly opened Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, the artist and Royal Academician will explore “landscape” in its broadest sense: intimate collections of natural found objects, a mountainous blackboard drawing and a series of cloudscapes in chalk on slate created especially for these spaces will draw you into Dean’s vision.
The highlight of the exhibition will be a major new, experimental 35mm film, Antigone, shown as two simultaneous cinemascope projections. This quasi-narrative film features writer/poet Anne Carson and actor Stephen Dillane and combines multiple places, geologies and seasons into a spectacular cinematographic frame using the same masking technique first developed by Dean for her Tate Modern Turbine Hall project FILM (2011).
