Tacita Dean and still life

• Autores: Ed Krčma
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 37, Nº. 5, 2014, págs. 960-977
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay explores the relationship between the work of Tacita Dean and still life painting, focusing upon two recent films made from footage shot in the re-installed bedroom studio of Giorgio Morandi ('Day for Night' and 'Still Life', both 2009). It is argued that the history of still life painting dramatizes three of Dean's key concerns: transience and finitude; a heightened attention to the textures and surfaces of the material world; and types of formal and conceptual self-reflexivity. Ultimately, what it is at stake in Dean's return to still life, it is suggested, is the negotiation of art's precarious autonomy, which is dependent on yet resistant to powerful heteronomus forces dominated by exchange value.