Rachel Whiteread
Biography
Rachel Whiteread studied from 1982 to 1985 painting at the Brighton Polytechnic to the conclusion Painting BA. From 1985 to 1987, she earned a degree in sculpture, inter alia, Phyllida Barlow at the Slade School of Fine Art and earned a degree Sculpture MA. She also studied at the Academy of Arts Cyprus.
Whiteread created objects, sculptures, installations, mixed media and drawings. That's why they can not be clearly classified as a sculptor. A high level of awareness has Whiteread can achieve through their sculptural works:
The artist takes impressions with plaster, rubber, plastics and other materials of everyday objects and architectural details through to the impression of entire rooms, even a house ( House 1993, destroyed 1994). These white objects on the one hand are the subject ( reality ) from documenting signs of wear, however, reflect its object the other hand, and due to the white material a high abstraction effect. Many of her prints taken so far clearly document the empty space ( the void ) to objects; This applies eg for replicating bookshelves or from the bottom of a sink. For Rachel Whiteread exhibitions were internationally oriented. In 1998 she created the Water Tower for the public space in New York.
For Vienna, she designed in 2000 the Holocaust Memorial at the Jewish court. It was in the style of Whiteread's empty spaces represent a library, show their books to the outside. The memorial can be understood as an appreciation of Judaism as a religion of the book, but it also speaks the left by the genocide of the European Jews cultural space at ( memory and loss).
A further development of their artistic work can be seen in Whiteread's exhibition at the Tate Modern, London, read in 2005 /2006. Rachel Whiteread poured out 14,000 cartons with polyethylene. These casts are exhibited like a bizarre landscape in the large entrance hall of the museum. The motive of the cardboard - casting based on a left by Whiteread's mother board, was kept in the Christmas decorations. The castings are to be recycled after the show.