Sculptor Rachel Whiteread

Introduction

Rachel Whiteread born in London in 1963 is now a young sculptor, leading the Great Britain. Sequels to his studies at Brighton Polytechnic and at London's Slade School of Fine Art, she began her career practicing casts of objects from daily life and parts of his body: ear 1986. Attracted a by notions of memory and relationships between humans and objects and space, she performs in 1990, a major shift in his career. The conceptualization of a body of work increasingly monumental enabled him to obtain a significant recognition internationally.

Early Practice

Rachel Whiteread began her practice in a time of great change in art. In the years 1980, the ideology of postmodernism calls into question the linear aspect of art history as it was experienced before. 3 When Rachel Whiteread began to make known, in 1990, several artistic movements emerge: Bio Art, Web Art, Digital Art, Art online. These all demonstrate incredible rise of advanced technology and especially the impressive system of communication was recently installed.

Rachel Whiteread Work

Rachel worked with molds in various objects and materials on houses. Uses plaster, resin, gum rubber, polystyrene, fiberglass, cement dental ... This reveals what lies beneath the surface of everyday objects, making the extraordinary perceived lies beneath the ordinary. The result goes beyond the literal representation. His works, quasi-objects, are vaguely familiar but at the same time, intrigued with his surreal appearance. His pieces were sculptures, not reproductions cast a volumetric anything but the space around it. Catching this space Rachel Whiteread de-contextualizing, how does the everyday symbolic character of copper (it actually is), the mold of a bathroom becomes a sarcophagus, the stack of a kitchen in a baptismal inside a bag in hot water a torso of the Cyclades, in the origin of classical sculpture (Townsend & Rachel, 45-87).

But the revelation is where Whiteread dilapidated volumes shown in greater force 'places' that create inside those containers of time, memories, and even forgotten by all who are the objects and properties that form 'contain'. They are 'memory without memory', because nobody has those memories but it is understood and known to those objects and houses 'contain memories' for others absent, though no longer identify.

Whiteread get something similar to what passed the ruins and artifacts. They know they are remembering something and someone already read but nobody knows, at least in the sense of sharing the emotions that those memories bring. Whiteread ...