Tacita Dean @ Marian Goodman through April 30, 2009.
Large and small scale photographs of natural world objects with the background painted out by hand: the objects look unnatural and the works unlike photography. The rocks start to suggest animal forms in the same way abstraction or clouds can. The beauty of the trees is enhanced by the white paint which must be more dexterous but is also more interesting. Web like patterns emerge in the ground of
Painted Kotzch Trees I-IV, while in the large scale "
gravure project" the black ground lacks such nuance. With two 16 mm films, one a
negotiated, sunlight obsessed tribute to
Beuys.
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