BIOGRAPHY
Tacita Dean was born the year 1965 in Canterbury, England. It is a visual artist.
From 1985 to 1988 went to the Falmouth School of Art. He had a Greek government scholarship to the School of Fine Arts Athens Supreme in1989 to 1990. In the period 1990 to 1992 attended the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. Initially trained as a painter, but later was dedicated to video, work for which he is known. Used, however, a wide variety of media including drawing, photography and sound. He has also published several books, whose subjects supplementing their visual work. His most recent work does not include comments, but some of his texts are part of the videos. It is one of the Young British Artists.
Actually she lives and works in Berlin. She is famous for her work in the film 16 mm, despite she uses a variety of media including drawings, photos and sound. her films often use the camera angle long shots and constant to create a contemplative atmosphere. She works with the capture of the natural light or subtle changes in the movement. With her static positions of the camera she wants to make the events take place slowly.Many of her works show that the architecture can be transformed by the camera lents.
The films, drawings and other works by Tacita Dean are extremely original. Her recent film portraits express something that neither painting nor photography can capture. They are purely film. And while Dean can appreciate the past, her art avoids any kind of academic approach. Dean‘s art is carried by a sense of history, time and place, light quality and the essence of the film itself. The focus of her subtle but ambitious work is the truth of the moment, the film as a medium and the sensibilities of the individual.
THE FILM
FILM is an 11-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a gigantic white monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall. It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image, and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as opposed to digital. The film feels like a surreal visual poem, including images from the natural world among others, with the epic wall of the Turbine Hall showing through, in a montage of black and white, colour, and hand-tinted film.
