Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Jennifer King. Text by Briony Fer.
British artist Tacita Dean (born 1965) was recently commissioned by The Royal Opera House to collaborate with choreographer Wayne McGregor and composer Thomas Adès on a piece inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Presented here in three parts, the ballet mirrors Dante’s journey through the realms of the dead: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.
Published by Walther König, Köln. Edited by Tacita Dean, Suzanne Cottes. Text by Jennifer King.
This volume presents the full transcript of a conversation between artists Luchita Hurtado (born 1920) and Julie Mehretu (born 1970). Recorded on 16mm film by fellow artist Tacita Dean (born 1965), the discussion took place on their shared birthday in 2020, marking a combined age of 150 years.
Published by Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager. Text by Tacita Dean, Anne Carson, et al.
Tacita Dean’s (born 1965) Antigone (2018) is an hour-long 35mm anamorphic film, and is the most complex work to date by the British-European artist. The name of this work combines the artist's personal history with the mythological world order: Antigone is the heroine in the eponymous drama by the Greek poet Sophocles, and is also the name of Tacita Dean's older sister. The name creates a double bond full of ambivalences and is the reason for Dean's exploration of the character.
The leitmotif of the work is blindness: Antigone revolves around fundamental questions of foresight and destiny, seeing and not seeing, and metaphorical blindness as a necessity for artistic work. It is also a thoroughly analogue work: Dean assembled the film images, which appear like collages, with and inside the camera using sophisticated stencils and multiple exposures. The result of this experimental project is both a pioneering achievement and a masterpiece. The book documents the narrative of the making and impact of this work.
Originally conceived for an exhibition in Afghanistan, Tacita Dean’s (born 1965) c/o Jolyon consists of 100 original prewar postcards from Kassel, Germany, over which the artist painted contemporary views of the same sites in gouache. The postcards were originally mailed "c/o Jolyon" to the former CEO of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Kabul, Jolyon Leslie. The name Jolyon had a particular resonance for Dean, as it was her father’s middle name, taken from a character in John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga. The first 50 postcards of c/o Jolyon were shown as part of Documenta 13 at the Queen’s Palace, Bagh-e Babur in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2012. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies, this book reproduces the 100 postcards in full color.
British video artist and filmmaker Tacita Dean (born 1965) is internationally admired for her patient and sensitive approach to her subject matter, explored in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist in this collection of in-depth interviews. In her Berlin studio, at a conference and on a train journey, they discuss her film portraits of architectural structures and personalities such as Merce Cunningham, Michael Hamburger, Mario Merz and Cy Twombly; her fervent collecting and reworking of analogue material--postcards, four-leaf clovers, albumen prints--and the things that have informed and influenced her artistic output over the past two and a half decades. The result is a broad and invaluable introduction to one of the most important British artists of our times, full of fascinating anecdotes and insights into her working methods and illustrated with black-and-white images of her work.
Published by New Museum. Edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Margot Norton.
Tacita Dean (born 1965) has become one of Britain’s most celebrated artists, with more than 40 16mm films and a rich body of drawings, photographs and writing to her name. This volume focuses on five recent film portraits of important American artists and thinkers: Merce Cunningham, Leo Steinberg, Julie Mehretu, Claes Oldenburg and Cy Twombly.
PUBLISHER New Museum
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 72 pgs / 23 color / 2 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 10/31/2012 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 183
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780985448509TRADE List Price: $14.95 CAD $21.00 GBP £12.99
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 Bürger, Douglas Crimp and Achim Hochdörfer)
Prior to a controversial gallery renovation, Tacita Dean documents the brown and beige jute walls, carpeted floor and other decor of the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, which houses the famous seven-room installation Block Beuys, 1970-86 by Joseph Beuys. Opponents of the renovation cite the importance of entropy in Beuys' work.
PUBLISHER
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 10.25 x 6 in. / 80 pgs / 80 color. Signed edition of 1,000 copies.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 4/1/2009 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 162
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783865217035SDNR30 List Price: $100.00 CAD $120.00
Published by Walther König, Köln. Text by Tacita Dean.
The green ray is an optical phenomenon that occurs during the last moment of the sun's setting. Rarely seen from land, and then only when the horizon over the sea is 100% clear, it appears here, on a few pages of a flip-book which documents an entire sunset in Madagascar. The stills are taken from Tacita Dean's 2001 video “Green Ray on Madagascar.”
PUBLISHER Walther König, Köln
BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 6 x 3.75 in. / 152 pgs / 148 color.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 1/2/2004 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2004
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9783883756776SDNR30 List Price: $25.00 CAD $30.00