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TACITA DEAN
Wandermüde
21 September - 26 October 2007
Frith Street Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by Tacita Dean. One of the most celebrated artists of her generation Dean is known for her compelling 16 mm films, drawings, photographs and presentations of found objects. Here Dean has chosen to show a selection of works related to both British and German subject matter under the title of Wandermüde. Unlike the better known, Wanderlust, which is a desire to travel, Wandermüde implies an exhaustion at the prospect of travel - tired of wandering.
Commissioned to make a work in relation to the writer, W. G. Sebald, Dean took as her subject the poet and translator Michael Hamburger whom Sebald meets in a chapter of his book, The Rings of Saturn. Her 28 minute film, Michael Hamburger (2007) concentrates on Hamburger's love of apples, and on the orchard he has grown himself in his Suffolk garden, mostly from the pips of apples he has either found or been given. The rambling house and its encroaching garden, the sunlight, the rattling wind and then the appearance of a rainbow all act as metaphor to th... [ Read all ] |
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FIONA TAN
A Lapse of Memory
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS
10 October - 30 October 2007 |
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POLLY APFELBAUM: Love Sculpture 29/06/07 - 17/08/07
THOMAS SCHUTTE: Last Casts, New Etchings, Some Watercolours 18/05/07 - 22/06/07
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Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus
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Jane Hamlyn
Charlotte Schepke
Dale McFarland
Karon Hepburn
Jennifer Owens
Samantha Swan
Charlotte McLaughlin
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Saturday 11am - 5pm
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