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Tacita Dean
Analogue. Drawings 1991–2006
Over the past 15 years Tacita Dean has created a body of work, impressive in its idiosyncratic treatment of film and
drawings and striking in its contrary beauty. As a follow-up to the films, the publication of “Analogue” is the first
methodical study and graphic presentation of Dean’s drawings. The volume contains not just drawings on paper but
also on blackboards and alabaster and in photographs. There is a close connection between Dean’s drawings and her
film productions, which provide the creative impulse for her work in other media. In an interview, Dean explains these
connections by reference to several examples.
The exhibition at Schaulager is the most comprehensive survey and offers a representative selection of her oeuvre. The
structure of her work is mirrored in the conception and arrangement of the exhibition in order to connect cinematic,
sketched, and photographic images.
English artist Tacita Dean was born in Canterbury in 1965. Since 2001 she has lived and worked in Berlin, where she
was previously invited to study on a DAAD scholarship. Originally trained as a painter, Tacita Dean has worked in a
number of media since 1991, primarily film, drawing and photography. Her works have already been the subject of
many solo shows around the world in a variety of museums and galleries, most recently at Tate St Ives (2005), the De
Pont Foundation in Tilburg, Holland (2004) and the ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (2003), as well as at
Tate Britain (2001), among others. The Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel dedicated a solo exhibition to the artist
in 2000. She recently also curated the group exhibition An Aside, on display in the Glynn Vivian Gallery in Swansea,
Wales.
Co-published with Schaulager, Basel.
Exhibition: Schaulager, Basel from 13 May to 24 September 2006.
Tacita Dean
Analogue. Drawings 1991–2006
Essay by Theodora Vischer
Interview with the artist by Theodora Vischer
Book design by Theodora Vischer, Bernard Fischer, Sarah Winter
152 pages, 158 illustrations
7.25 x 9 in. / 18.5 x 23 cm
Softcover
US $ 30.00 / £ 17.50 / R 25.00
ISBN 3-86521-289-1
ISBN-13 978-3-86521-289-4
German edition (ISBN 3-86521-327-8) distributed by GVA
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