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5 unusual facts about Rachel Whiteread


Adaptive reuse

The wide industrial space has proven to be a worthy backdrop to modern art, with the famous turbine hall hosting artists including Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Whiteread and Ai Weiwei.

Alan Goodrick

He filmed (and owns the print of) the Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid film, drove Bill Drummond and Mark Manning to the top of the world (as recounted in Bad Wisdom), and was the ski-masked person fumbling with lighter fluid and matches when Rachel Whiteread came to claim the K Foundation art award.

Cloak of Conscience

In contrast to Rachel Whiteread's procedure of making positive volumes out of negative space, Chromy constructs a negative space out of a solid volume: the human body.

Judenplatz

Created by British artist Rachel Whiteread, the memorial is a reinforced concrete cube resembling a library with its volumes turned inside out.

Karsten Schubert

Rachel Whiteread's 1996 departure from the gallery triggered a reorientation of Schubert's activities.


White Horse at Ebbsfleet

A shortlist was chosen on 28 January 2008 (consisting of Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Deacon, Christopher le Brun, and Daniel Buren).


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Carl Freedman

In 2000, he started the business Counter Editions with Matthew Slotover, publisher of Frieze magazine, (Slotover has since left) to sell prints online by artists such as Jake and Dinos Chapman, Emin and Rachel Whiteread.