Tacita Dean Bücher

"Das Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart zeigt die Schweizer Erstaufführung von Antigone (2018), der bisher komplexesten Arbeit von Tacita Dean (geb. 1965). Die Präsentation des einstündigen, anamorphotischen 35mm-Films wird durch weitere Filme, Fotografien, Fotogravuren und Kreidezeichnungen der britisch-europäischen Künstlerin ergänzt. In Antigone geht es um den Namen Antigone und alles, was in ihm anklingt, nicht nur in der griechischen Literatur der Antike, sondern auch im eigenen Leben der Künstlerin. Antigone ist der Name von Deans älterer Schwester und gehört somit zu den ersten Wörtern, die die Künstlerin gelernt hat. Ebendiesen Namen trägt bekanntlich auch die Heldin in der thebanischen Trilogie des griechischen Tragödiendichters Sophokles, was Dean darauf brachte, ihre eigene Geschichte mit dem mythologischen Kosmos der klassischen Antike zu verflechten." (Quelle: Homepage Kunstmuseum Basel, Tactita Dean, 27.01.22)

Seven Books Grey is an updated, expanded version of Tacita Dean's Seven Books (2003), and is an exploration of Dean's oeuvre as it straddles film, drawing, photography, writing and book-making. Each book has a different focusand together they are an accurate survey of Dean's work to date. Book One: Complete Works and Filmography 1991-2011 - Book Two: Selected Writings 1992-2011 (Dean's writings)-Book Three: A Panegyric, Gaeta, Edwin Parker (three projects made with and about Cy Twombly) - Book Four: Film Works with Merce Cunningham - Book Five: Footage (artist's book with a text by Marina Warner taking a cultural-historical lookat the foot and the significance of limping) - Book Six: Post-War Germany and 'Objective Chance': W.G. Sebald, Joseph Beuys and Tacita Dean (essay by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes) - Book Seven: Essays on the Work of Tacita Dean (texts by Wolfram Pichler, Peter Burger, Douglas Crimp and Achim Hochdorfer)

Everyone wants to find their own place in the world. But where is it and what is it? How do we recognize place as being significant and not just merely space? And what is it that makes one place special and another not?

Face to Face presents a selection of portraits of artists by three of the most prominent portrait artists of our time. Bringing together the diverse and distinctive work of Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie, this book forms an investigation into the charged genre of portraiture and its various approaches, navigating tensions between intimacy and publicity. While the three artists collected here share a wide set of historical touchstones, each deploys the camera Dean exploits cinema’s capacity for duration; Lacombe takes her cameras out on assignment; Opie works in the tradition of the studio photograph. Often overlapping in the subjects depicted, Face to Face offers an opportunity to look closely at bracing, intimate, and resonant portraits of the seminal thinkers and makers that these artists have encountered across the fields of music, painting, photography, film, and literature, among them Hilton Als, Maya Angelou, Richard Avedon, Joan Didion, David Hockney, Joan Jonas, Patti Smith, Kara Walker, and many other others. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, the book includes essays by the exhibition’s curator, Helen Molesworth, and the artist and writer Jarrett Earnest.