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Tacita Dean

Born, 1965 in Canterbury, UK

From the biography section of the Frith Street Gallery (who represent her): www.frithstreetgallery.com/artists/bio/tacita_dean

“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.”

“Tacita Dean’s work is the subject of two major exhibitions in 2009, at Milan’s Fondazione Trussardi and at ACCA Melbourne. Her her large-scale film installation Merce Cunningham Performs Stillness was recently presented at DIA Beacon, New York. Dean has had many notable solo exhibitions including Frith Street Gallery; Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; Schaulager, Basel; Tate Britain and Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Dean won the Hugo Boss award in 2007 and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1998.”