by Will Brand on April 18, 2011
Rachel Whiteread: Long Eyes Date: SATURDAY, MARCH 26TH 2011 – SATURDAY, APRIL 30TH 2011 Venue: Luhring Augustine, 531 West 24th Street AFC’s Rating: 3/10 (Will Brand) Rachel Whiteread’s work is best when it explores unheralded spaces: the insides of houses; the undersides of chairs; the interstices between book and shelf. At her best, she reveals these subjects with an unexpectedness […]
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by Paddy Johnson on April 13, 2011
Size matters. Some art needs to be large to be effective; other works should be small. It’s a tricky game to figure out, and when a work fails for this reason, it’s inevitably awkward.
Rachel Whiteread’s current show of resin doors and windows at Luhring Augustine, Long Eyes (through April 30), is an unlikely example of scale failure. The majority of cast sculptures she’s exhibited in the past reproduce the original object without changing its size and many of those works are successful. I’ll never forget Whiteread’s cast plaster mattress, an object strangely resembling a fossilized relic of domestic life. That piece is occasionally on view at MoMA.
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