Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963)
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Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963)

Untitled (Trafalgar Square Plinth)

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Rachel Whiteread (b. 1963)
Untitled (Trafalgar Square Plinth)
upper section: polyurethane resin
lower section: jesmonite (plasticized plaster) with acrylic sealant
35½ x 20¼ x 9¾in. (90.2 x 51.4 x 24.8cm.)
Executed in 1999, this work is from an edition of fifteen
Exhibited
Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Jeff Wall, Rachel Whiteread, September-October 2002 (another from the edition exhibited).
Special Notice
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Lot Essay

"It's a simple trick, but an effective one, and the associations it conjures--heaviness and lightness, earth and heaven, death and life--are thought-provoking and manifold. Whiteread's Monument, as light and gleaming as the plinth is dark and squat, is the only one of the four commissioned pieces to allude directly to the plinth's defining emptiness. She sees it not as a space to be filled, but as an absence to be acknowledged, and she does it well" (N. Denny, New Statesman, 9 July 2001).

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